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Erich Lessing
This exquisite scene, showing the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883‒859 B.C.E.) taking aim at a lion from his chariot, is from the palace at ancient Kalhu (modern Nimrud, in Iraq).
Erich Lessing
This exquisite scene, showing the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883‒859 B.C.E.) taking aim at a lion from his chariot, is from the palace at ancient Kalhu (modern Nimrud, in Iraq).