Illustration
This gypsum wall relief depicts a beardless man holding a bow and quiver; this is the "Keeper of the King's Bow". His earring has 3 knob-like projections. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Tiglath-pileser III, circa 728 BCE. From the Central Palace at Nimrud (Kalhu), Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London).
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