Thursday, July 29, 2010
Iconography of Arboricide, 1
L.W. King, ed., Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, B.C. 860-825 (London: British Museum, 1915), Plate VIII, Band II.2 (Campaign in Armenia, 860 B.C.), Upper Register (Burning of a city of Urartu and cutting down of its date-plantations), Lower Register (Assyrian chariots and archers at the storming of a city of Urartu):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizTSLSBSxa4rM2rjQE7O51Zqip0HphaLX-duPsiQgrPRIpK-V_wmHE3ql3m8uAup1OOEvRl3xLEHbjqQpaB16BUl7f3Upx46wkj4aeWlLNugJRuL6wdTmOuLvM6PwIzqEE6WAuaw/s400/king-budge-pl-viii.jpg)
Look at the upper left hand part of the relief to see the tree-cutting.
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![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizTSLSBSxa4rM2rjQE7O51Zqip0HphaLX-duPsiQgrPRIpK-V_wmHE3ql3m8uAup1OOEvRl3xLEHbjqQpaB16BUl7f3Upx46wkj4aeWlLNugJRuL6wdTmOuLvM6PwIzqEE6WAuaw/s400/king-budge-pl-viii.jpg)
Look at the upper left hand part of the relief to see the tree-cutting.
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