Question
This activity often took place in an ambassu with many spectators viewing it. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this activity in which Assyrian rulers symbolically recreated one of Ninurta’s deeds. A series of reliefs of this activity shows wine being poured onto the heads of some of its participants.
ANSWER: lion hunting [accept Panthera leo persica in place of “lion”; prompt on hunting; prompt on bird hunting or eagle hunting by asking “with what other animal is the Anzû bird commonly associated?”]
[10e] The best-known depiction of Assyrian lion hunting was created under this ruler. This ruler conquered Egypt and built an extensive library at Nineveh.
ANSWER: Ashurbanipal [or Aššur-bāni-apli]
[10h] A prism text details Ashurbanipal’s capture of this city, in which he pours libations onto the head of its king as he did to the hunted lions. This city later became the capital of the Adiabene (“ah-d’yah-BEN-ay”) Kingdom.
ANSWER: Erbil [or Arbela, Arbel, Arbīl, or Hewlêr]
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