Still on the subject of the exotic animals presented as tribute to the Assyrian king

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Still on the subject of the exotic animals presented as tribute to the Assyrian king. Does anyone want to take a guess at what animals these are?

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Baby hippos, carved very poorly from third person accounts :smiley:

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I was going to say if those are cats trailing then Indian Elephants might correspond to Tigers, if African, then Lions. Either way those Kings are huge!