Lion

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Assyrian warrior-king Ashurbanipal throttles a wounded lion, and calmly, resolutely. thrusts his sword through its chest. This image is a part of the epic gypsum alabaster hall relief called the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, which decorated the halls of the North Palace of Nineveh, an ancient city-state in present day Iraq. The darkly beautiful images were commissioned by King Ashurbanipal (c.685-631BCE), remembered as the last of the great Assyrian kings, a fierce ruler who was also a dedicated patron of artworks and literature. It depicts the practices of captured Asiatic lions being hunted and slaughtered by the Assyrian royalty, and is currently displayed in the British Museum, after it was plundered from Ottoman Iraq in 1853. In these images, the blank formal, side-on depictions of humans, bereft of emotional expression, contrasting starkly with the incredibly emotive lions, each vibrantly captured in various.

Assyrian warrior-king Ashurbanipal throttles a wounded lion, and calmly, resolutely. thrusts his sword through its chest. This image is a part of the epic gypsum alabaster hall relief called the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, which decorated the halls of the North Palace of Nineveh, an ancient city-state in present day Iraq. The darkly beautiful images were commissioned by King Ashurbanipal (c.685-631BCE), remembered as the last of the great Assyrian kings, a fierce ruler who was also a dedicated patron of artworks and literature. It depicts the practices of captured Asiatic lions being hunted and slaughtered by the Assyrian royalty, and is currently displayed in the British Museum, after it was plundered from Ottoman Iraq in 1853. In these images, the blank formal, side-on depictions of humans, bereft of emotional expression, contrasting starkly with the incredibly emotive lions, each vibrantly captured in various.

Assyrian warrior-king Ashurbanipal throttles a wounded lion, and calmly, resolutely. thrusts his sword through its chest. This image is a part of the epic gypsum alabaster hall relief called the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, which decorated the halls of the North Palace of Nineveh, an ancient city-state in present day Iraq. The darkly beautiful images were commissioned by King Ashurbanipal (c.685-631BCE), remembered as the last of the great Assyrian kings, a fierce ruler who was also a dedicated patron of artworks and literature. It depicts the practices of captured Asiatic lions being hunted and slaughtered by the Assyrian royalty, and is currently displayed in the British Museum, after it was plundered from Ottoman Iraq in 1853. In these images, the blank formal, side-on depictions of humans, bereft of emotional expression, contrasting starkly with the incredibly emotive lions, each vibrantly captured in various.

Assyrian warrior-king Ashurbanipal throttles a wounded lion, and calmly, resolutely. thrusts his sword through its chest. This image is a part of the epic gypsum alabaster hall relief called the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, which decorated the halls of the North Palace of Nineveh, an ancient city-state in present day Iraq. The darkly beautiful images were commissioned by King Ashurbanipal (c.685-631BCE), remembered as the last of the great Assyrian kings, a fierce ruler who was also a dedicated patron of artworks and literature. It depicts the practices of captured Asiatic lions being hunted and slaughtered by the Assyrian royalty, and is currently displayed in the British Museum, after it was plundered from Ottoman Iraq in 1853. In these images, the blank formal, side-on depictions of humans, bereft of emotional expression, contrasting starkly with the incredibly emotive lions, each vibrantly captured in various.

Assyrian warrior-king Ashurbanipal throttles a wounded lion, and calmly, resolutely. thrusts his sword through its chest. This image is a part of the epic gypsum alabaster hall relief called the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, which decorated the halls of the North Palace of Nineveh, an ancient city-state in present day Iraq. The darkly beautiful images were commissioned by King Ashurbanipal (c.685-631BCE), remembered as the last of the great Assyrian kings, a fierce ruler who was also a dedicated patron of artworks and literature. It depicts the practices of captured Asiatic lions being hunted and slaughtered by the Assyrian royalty, and is currently displayed in the British Museum, after it was plundered from Ottoman Iraq in 1853. In these images, the blank formal, side-on depictions of humans, bereft of emotional expression, contrasting starkly with the incredibly emotive lions, each vibrantly captured in various.

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