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Alabaster wall panel relief: showing a scene in the Assyrian Camp. On the left is a schematic view of a circular fortified camp. In a circular enclosure with four divisions food is being prepared and cooked, while a priest in a flat hat inspects the entrails of an animal in order to predict the future, and outside are several horses feeding from a circular manger made of mud or clay. In the 'zaribah' close by an Assyrian is grooming a horse, and at the door of it is an official noting the arrival of a batch of prisoners who are in the charge of a soldier. On each of the front posts of the 'zaribah' is the figure of a horned animal. Near it stand an attendant and two lion-headed figures. There is an inscription written in cuneiform.
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