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City wall

Fig 9: City walls - Detail of a sketch - From [Art, history and literature illustrations](https://www.worldcat.org/title/art-history-and-literature-illustrations/oclc/878211383&referer=brief_results)

Fig 9: City walls - Detail of a sketch - From Art, history and literature illustrations

Here we see part of the city wall, presumably at the edge of the city. We see three towers with people in them.David Ussishkin, “The “Lachish Reliefs”, Israel Exploration Journal 30, no. 3-4 (1980): 192

These towers create a problem, because no remains of any towers have been found. The solution, however, is quite simple. Many reliefs in the Southwest Palace have similar towers. The walls with towers are therefore the conventional way of depicting city defenses for the artists of Sennacherib. They do not reflect individual features of the city of Lachish.David Ussishkin, “The “Lachish Reliefs”, Israel Exploration Journal 30, no. 3-4 (1980): 192.