Detail of an alabaster bas-relief showing a lion being stabbed in the neck. The lion has jumped and reached a critical point very close to the king’s chariot. The king’s attendants thrust their spears onto the lion’s neck to stop the lion; the king, using his right hand, stabs the lion deeply into his neck. The lion’s painful facial expression was depicted very delicately. From Room C of the North Palace, Nineveh (modern-day Kouyunjik, Mosul Governorate), Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 645-535 BCE. The British Museum, London. Photo©Osama S.M. Amin.