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Relief of Royal Hunting Scenes (lions, fallow-deer and onager), gypsum, Room S, North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, h: 1.66 m
From the Neo-Assyrian Period, 1000 BCE - 612 BCE
Found in Nineveh
Covered in lecture on Oct 21st, 2004
In this hunt relief, depicted in three registers, Ashurbanipal (668-c. 627 BCE) is seen at top thrusting a dagger into the belly of a lion (an image also seen in the Assyrian royal seal). The central register shows the king on horseback spearing a lion while another attacks a horse from the rear. At bottom, attendants with horses aid in the hunt.

Relief of Ashurbanipal Stabbing Lion With Sword, alabaster, Room S, North Palace, Nineveh, c. 645 BCE
From the Neo-Assyrian Period, 1000 BCE - 612 BCE
Found in Nineveh
Covered in lecture on Oct 21st, 2004
In the above detail of a royal lion hunt, king Ashurbanipal is seen plunging his sword into an attacking lion, which has already been shot in the head by one of the king's marksmen. The theme of the lion hunt was very popular in Neo-Assyrian royal art.