Musicians with a Tame Lion

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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published on 24 August 2017
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Gypsum wall panel relief depicting two musicians, playing a harp and a lyre. One is a young man wearing a feather headdress and the other is a woman wearing a fillet of large beads. A tame lion beneath palms and cypresses appears. The whole scene appears to be in a garden. Panel 5 of Room E, The North Palace at Nineveh (Kouyunjik), Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian Empire, 645-635 BCE.

The British Museum, London.

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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