Relief of a Winged Genius, Reign of Ashurnasirpal, c.883-859 BC (gypsum)

Depicting a bearded winged deity (Apkallu) in profile to the right, wearing a triple-horned cap and a fringed cloak over a fringed and tasseled tunic and sandals, together with a pendant earring, a necklace, an armlet on his right bicep with ram-head terminals, a rosette bracelet on his right wrist, a plain armlet and bracelet on his left, with two daggers and a horse-head whetstone in his waistband, borders of the cloak and tunic with incised details including a rosette, an animal, and a combat scene, holding a cone in his right hand with which he anoints the stylized sacred date palm before him, a situla in his left hand, with the Standard Inscription in a finely cut band of cuneiform across the centre.