Bronze Gates at Balawat

Illustration 43, p56 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965
43 A detail from the bronze gates at Balawat showing the conquest of Urartu by Shalmaneser III in 859 BC. Ninth century

43 Bronze gates (detail) Assyrian army of Shalmaneser III defeating Urartians in 859 BC. Balawat, ninth century BC. Photo: Courtesy Trustees of the British Museum

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