Week 9: ARTWORK OF ART HISTORICAL Ashurbanipal Lion Hunting Relief - The detailed relief stands 63.5 cm (25 inches) tall. - From the Neo-Assyrian Period (1000-612 BC). - Excavated at the site of ancient Nineveh (Kuyunjik) by H. Rassam about 1847. - This stone panel was is currently at the British Museum. - Nineveh (Kuyunjik) was Ashurbanipal's capital city (Northern Iraq).












