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Winged Genie

Figures in these reliefs from King Ashur-nair-pal II's palace sometimes show headbands and wrist bands decorated with rosettes.When worn by genies they may identify them as personal attendants of the king/ The rosette may have been associated with the goddess Ishtar.

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Uploaded on June 18, 2013
Taken on June 16, 2013