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The upper part of the body of an archer (who might well represent an Assyrian soldier?). He wears a feather headdress. Alabaster bas-relief from Kuyunjik (modern-day Ninawa Governorate, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq). Reign of Ashurbanipal, 668-627 BCE. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.