The British Museum - Nineveh Sculptures: Sow and Pigs in the Wadi L'Kasab (Reed Valley) in Chaldea, 1857. Detail of a bas-relief from the South West Palace, the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, (in modern Iraq). Scene '...highly suggestive of the marshy flat country south of Nineveh...[with] a sow with a litter of nine pigs'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.
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