This 1910 image shows an Assyrian king hunting. The stone relief is in the British Museum in London. Here, the king Ashurbanipal gallops forward, shooting at wild asses. One of the horsemen behind him has spare arrows and the other has a spare mount. Asses are shot or pulled down by dogs. Ashurbanipal ruled in 600s BC. Date of this relief uncovered at North Palace at Nineveh is 645-635 BC.

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