Three Chaldean captives

Three Chaldean (Babylonian) captives advance through a palm grove, with sacks containing their possessions thrown over their shoulders. Their ethnicity is shown by their headbands and thick, ropey hair. This fragment is from a set of reliefs depicting the surrender of Babylonians to Assurbanipal, an Assyrian king, after a battle in the marshes around Babylon. The prisoners, accompanied by their children and cattle, are being escorted by Assyrian guards into the presence of the king. (See External Link.)

Sources:
- Eva Miller, “Assyrian Reliefs in Glencairn Museum: Framing the Ancient Past,” _Glencairn Museum News_, Number 9, 2016.
- Glenn Markoe, _“Five Assyrian Relief Fragments in the Glencairn Museum,” Source: Notes in the History of Art 2_(4), 1983, 1–5.