After Sennacherib, king of Assyria (704-681 BC), defeated the Judeans who lived at Lachish he tried to capture Jerusalem but was unsuccessful. Back home in Nineveh the king left a limestone relief of the siege of Lachish on his palace wall. The original is now in the British Museum. There is a replica in the Israel Museum.
The panel below shows the landscape around Lachish with palm trees and vineyards. Here is a small section of the relief. Notice especially the upper left corner of the relief.
In resettling the land of Biblical Israel, the modern settlers tried to plant the same plants known in Bible times. The Sennacherib relief shows clearly that date palms and vineyards were in abundance in the region. Our next photo which I made in the Lachish area in the month of August shows grapes for eating in abundance.
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