Assurbanipal: Ceremonial Rite. The king is attended by fan-bearers and a bowman, and is pouring a holy libation on four slain lions. He stands before an altar beside which is the marru, triangular symbol of Marduk. The ceremony is carried out to accompaniment of the harp. The inscription begins: 'I am Assurbanipal, King of hosts, King of Assyria. In my abounding princely strength I seized a lion of the desert by his tail ...