This alabaster bas-relief depicts the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II praying in a religious ceremony. The king (right) holds a bowl (filled with a fluid) with his right hand and puts his left hand on his sword hilt. Before him, a royal attendant (or priest) holds a whisk (made of reeds or branches) as part of the ritual. The "Standard Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II" runs across the relief horizontally. The panel was a donation From the Scottish obstetrician Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870) to the Society of Antiquities of Scotland in 1865 CE. Dr. Simpson was very interested in archaeology. From the north-west palace at Nimrud, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian period, 9th century BCE. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)
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