Text, Black Obelisk of Shalmanese III, disc

European Museums, The British Museum

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. (858-824 B.C.) Exotic animals from Musri: 'a river-ox (water buffalo), an (indian) rhinoceros, an antelope'. The sculptor had clearly never seen a rhinoceros.

Solar disc horn of a river-ox on the Black Obelisk of Shalmanese III

Genre: 841 B.C.

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Black Obelisk of Shalmanese III, disc on the rive-ox head

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