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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

c. 825 BCE · 9th century BCE

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a black limestone monument from Nimrud, erected around 825 BCE and now in the British Museum. Its relief panels show tribute brought to the Assyrian king from five lands; one panel shows Jehu of Israel, or his envoy, prostrate before Shalmaneser, the only known contemporary image of a king of Israel or Judah.

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/black-obelisk-of-shalmaneser-iii
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