Assyrian stele fragment dating to Ashurbanipal’s reign discovered in Nineveh

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🦁 Frieze depicting a lion hunt, from the royal palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian Empire, 668-631 BCE.

The British Museum, London.

📷 Photo ©️ by Jan van der Crabben. 

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