Gypsum relief, Ashurbanipal's palace Nineveh

Description

Gypsum wall panel relief: depicting a harpist and lyre player, one a woman wearing a fillet of great beads, the other a youth, wearing feather headdress, with a tame lion beneath palms and cypresses. This neo-Assyrian relief dates to 645BC - 635BC and was excavated in room E of the North Palace of Ashurbanipal. This is panel 5. Height: 168 centimetres