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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