Research Paper On King Ashurbanipals

In the time period when King Ashurbanipal ruled he had a carving of a lion being hunted. It was carved from stone. In the assyrian time period, it was very common for lions to be hunted. They would be skinned and left to die. The assyrians were very proud people and they looked very poorly torwards anything that was below them. With reliefs, it’s difficult to ffind the original artist. King Ashurbanipal also had paintings. According to khan academy, “The scenes were originally picked out with paint, which occasionally survives, and work like modern comic books, starting the story at one end and following it along the walls to the conclusion.”(Khan Academy). This shows that ancient reliefs realte to more mordern stuff, like comic books for