This relief panel shows an Assyrian war chariot of ninth century The drawing is by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the bronze bas-reliefs of the gate of Balawat, and accompanied text by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. This bronze relief decorated the gate at the palace of the Assyrian ruler Shalmanesar III (c. 859–824 ) at Balawat in present-day northern Iraq.

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This relief panel shows an Assyrian war chariot of ninth century The drawing is by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the bronze bas-reliefs of the gate of Balawat, and accompanied text by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. This bronze relief decorated the gate at the palace of the Assyrian ruler Shalmanesar III (c. 859–824 ) at Balawat in present-day northern Iraq.

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