Nimroud Sculptures...Triumphal Return of the King to his Camp, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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Nimroud Sculptures...Triumphal Return of the King to his Camp, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Nimroud Sculptures, just received at the British Museum - Triumphal Return of the King to his Camp, 1850. The King is seen in his chariot, attended by his chief eunuch; before him, but aloft, flies the symbolical eagle, bearing a human head in its claw. The chariots are preceded by musicians, and by soldiers carrying the heads of the slain, which they appear to display with exultation....the yokes of the chariots are undecorated...yet it should be remarked that these trappings scarcely differ in any respect from the harness which was used on state occasions, in the seventeenth century, in Spain and other countries of Europe; and, in some points, they are evidently the prototypes of our modern horse furniture of parade'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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