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This is not a perforated plaque, but it's worth documenting this here anyway.

 






This is rather badly copied from a fragmentary alabaster relief carving from a wall at the Central Palace in Nimrud.  It is in the British Museum. Museum number 118904.

It was excavated by  Sir Austen Henry Layard who excavated at NImrud  between November 1845 and June 1847 and from October 1849 to April 1851.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1848-1104-3

As with so many Assyrian reliefs of archers it shows the pair of archers with another soldier between them holding a shield.

 

The faker here has very much misdunderstood what he is seeing in the original and has completly missed out the arm of the central  shield-bearer grasping the handle of the shield. Archers shown on reliefs  typically had a shield-bearer in frontof  or betewee holding a tall metal shield that stood higher than the archer and it was curved inward at the top to protect the archer. These shields were made of metal or sometimes a toughened skin with dense matted reeds.



The faker has added some totally meaningless pseudo-cuneiform at the top. This is not , despite what it might look like to you,  readable text . It is total nonsense.




Yet another, also copied from one in the Louvre Museum.

 

 




From the same seller

 

 




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