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The British Museum - Nineveh Sculptures: Sow and Pigs in the Wadi L'Kasab...1857. Creator: Unknown.

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The British Museum - Nineveh Sculptures: Sow and Pigs in the Wadi L'Kasab (Reed Valley) in Chaldea, 1857. Detail of a bas-relief from the South West Palace, the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, (in modern Iraq). Scene '...highly suggestive of the marshy flat country south of Nineveh...[with] a sow with a litter of nine pigs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_493

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NA

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Droits gérés

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10,0Mo (566,8Ko) / 18,9cm x 13,3cm / 2232 x 1573 (300dpi)

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