Tuba on Relief

Iconography | IC010

Find Spot: Palace of Sennacherib, Nineveh

Date of Illustration: Between 705 and 681 BCE

Current Location: British Museum, West Asiatic Antiquities, No. 124820

Description: Two players, one holding single coned tuba other blowing same. Apparently signalling to men hauling a collossal bull.

Citations: Rimmer 1969: 38, Figure 10; Layard 1853: Plate 15; Behn 1954, Abb. 37

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