Alabaster bas-relief depicting a dying lioness. The lioness has received 3 arrowsl blood can be seen gushing from the ensuing wounds. One of the arrows hit her at the lower back; this may explain her hind legs’ weakness! She is roaring in agony, fighting her death. 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.