Hunting Lions from a Chariot

Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) shoots arrows at an attacking lion from his chariot. Two attendants follow behind to dispatch the wounded animal with their daggers. The relief is positioned here as it would have been in the Assyrian palace, above a scene of the king making an offering over a dead lion, presumably one of the animals shown in this relief. Kalhu (modern Nimrud, Iraq) Northwest Palace, Room B, Slab 19 (top) Assyrian, mid-late 9th century BC Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 1890.7.4A-B Modern painted resin cast of plaster copy of British Museum, London original 124534 Photogrammetry by Zhejiang University and Mohamed Abd elaziz