The bas-reliefs to which attention is drawn in this article both stood originally in the palace of Sennacherib (705–681 B.C.) at Nineveh, and were removed to Europe during the nineteenth century. The history of the excavations which produced them is a familiar one: Layard, the man primarily responsible, reckoned that he had exposed nearly two miles of sculpture in this building alone, and he was naturally unable, without adequate time, money, or assistance, to record and publish all his discoveries fully. So far the only widely accessible book to include more than a small selection of the wall-slabs has been Sidney Smith's Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum from Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib; interest otherwise has until recently been sporadic and, on the whole, highly discriminating. It is only now that a full publication of Layard's notes and drawings is being prepared, by Dr. R. D. Barnett of the British Museum, and even so the partial re-excavation of the palace by Dr. Tariq Madhlum has already revealed how incomplete these are. The slabs from Nineveh fall into two main categories: those taken to London as parts of long narrative series, and those left in position to await reexcavation. There are, however, in the British Museum and elsewhere, many other fragments whose importance is not dependent on their context, and it is to this group that the two slabs discussed below belong.