Contest with daggers. Relief from the Palace of Sennacherib at Kuyunjik (Nineveh). The participants are depicted in human form with grotesque animal heads and legs that terminate in the powerful talons of a bird of prey. Eighth-seventh century

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Contest with daggers. Relief from the Palace of Sennacherib at Kuyunjik (Nineveh). The participants are depicted in human form with grotesque animal heads and legs that terminate in the powerful talons of a bird of prey. Eighth-seventh century

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