Ashurbanipal on horseback spearing a lion

c. 645–635 BC · Assyria

Ashurbanipal on horseback spearing a lion, from Assyria, dated c. 645–635 BC. It was found at Nineveh. Today it is kept at the British Museum, London.

Date

c. 645–635 BC

Civilization

Assyria

Found at

Nineveh

Where it is today

British Museum, London

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• 
  c. 700–625 BC

  Head of a female worshipper from the Ishtar Temple, Nineveh

• 
  7th century BC

  Urad-Gula’s letter to the king about his misfortunes

• 
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