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Judah Under Armed Guard
On the Lachish Relief, the people of Judah are shown in a line, their hands raised in surrender as they are marched away under the watch of Assyrian soldiers. The artists made a striking distinction: only the prisoners—those under armed guard—are carved with short woolly hair and unmistakably African features. The Assyrians themselves wear helmets and long ringed beards, but the captives are different, their identity preserved in every curl and contour.
This detail leaves no room for doubt. The captives of Lachish, the tribe of Judah, were remembered in stone not as Europeans, but as a people with African features and tightly coiled hair, forever recorded in the conqueror’s own record of war.
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