Alabaster bas-relief showing Asurbanipal on foot before dead lions. This register continuation of the above scene. The king has coped with the emergency and killed the 2 lions. Some of the royal attendants exclaim at the size of the dead lions. The king and his 2 horses survived! From Room S 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.