Hero Overpowering a Lion

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by Thierry Ollivier
published on 09 April 2014

The Hero Overpowering a Lion, gypseous alabaster high relief with traces of paint from Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin), facade N of the throne room of the palace of Sargon II, Assyria (Iraq). Neo-Assyrian Empire, reign of Sargon II, 721-705 BCE.

Louvre, Paris.

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