The Royal Lion hunt of King Assurbanipal from the North Palace of Nineveh 645-635 BC Mesopotamia Iraq Assyria ( King Assurbanipal or Ashshurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon and the last strong king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (934–609 BC ) detail

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