Alabaster bas-relief depicting a dying lion. He has been hit by 4 arrows; blood gushes from the entry and exit points of the arrows. One of the arrows has passed through the left shoulder; note the limping of the left foreleg. The lion also appears to vomits blood! 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.