Biblical Archaeology Review

Grayson, p. 124.

Grayson, p. 120.

Albert Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, Part 2: From Tiglath-pileser I to Ashur-nasir-apli II (Wiesbaden, Germ.: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976), p. 165.

Stephanie Page, “A Stela of Adad-nirari III and Nergal-eres from Tell al Rimah,” Iraq 30 (1968), p. 143.

B. Jowett, The Dialogues of Plato (Boston and New York: Jefferson Press, 1871), vol. 2, p. 521.

This way of rendering dead bodies seems to have persisted for several centuries for it recurs on the seventh-century B.C. relief frieze from Nineveh depicting the battle on the river Ulai, as well as on a Greek Geometric oinochoe (wine jug), now in the Antikensammlung in Munich, on which there is a shipwreck scene. For a photograph of Tutankhamun’s box, see Alan R. Millard, “King Og’s Iron Bed—Fact or Fancy?” BR 06:02.

The attribution of the gypsum vases has been made by Professor Peter Warren of the University of Bristol, England. The attribution of the mortars has been made by Professor Hans-Günter Buchholz of the University of Giessen, Germany.

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