Assyria

Assyrian Archers

Blinding Prisoners

Impaled Prisoners

Jehu Relief

King Hunting

Lachish Captives

Assyrian Slinger

Trodden Under Foot

Sargon II in Royal Fashion Limestone Sculpture. 2 feet 11 inches tall from Khorsabad, and is now in the Museo di Antichita, Turin. It is a portrait of Sargon II preserved in history. The nose, eyebrows, and eyes are distinctive. Sargon's hair is dressed in royal fashion. His beard is curled all over, his moustache at the sides, his ear-ring is in the form of a cross.

This was Sargon II, conqueror of the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel. His portrait has been preserved on this limestone relief for over two thousand five hundred years.

5- "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 - For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 - And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 - And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 - And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11 - And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2 Kings 17:5-11