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Description
Gypsum wall relief panel: split into three registers. The top register consists of a sequence of events. On the right a lion is being released from its cage by a small boy or eunuch, who is himself protected from the lion by a smaller cage. The lion advances left, and is hit by arrows shot by the king. They fail to kill it, and it leaps at the king who continues shooting, guarded by a shield-bearer; eunuchs with spare arrows stand behind him.
The central register is again read from right to left. On the right an Assyrian horseman, guarded by spearmen in a chariot, distracts a somewhat uninterested lion. The king comes up from the left and grabs the lion by the tail; the king's right hand, not visible here, held a mace ready to strike the lion over the head, as described in the accompanying caption. It is notable that much of the lion's tail has been chipped away, so that the lion has been, as it were, set loose. There is an inscription in cuneiform.
In the lower re… (See Merlin record for full description)
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