WOUNDED LIONESS

This work is a lioness that is damaged with three arrows stuck in his body, and looks like suffering from pain. This work is done in relief because it only sees a portion of the lioness. Represents the time the lioness, wounded to death, and can not hold onto his hindquarters trailing lifeless and powerless while looking up his nose roaring to life and see that you can hardly lift.

It is a fragment belonging to the low relief called "Ashurbanipal hunting lion" and decorating the palace of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. The Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia appears to 2150. C., after the Neo-Sumerian hegemony and ends its domain 612 BC. Therefore this is a work belonging to the period of Assyrian decline but at the same time most artistic splendor,the lion represents the king Assurbanipal.