This bas-relief from Khorsabad was drawn by French artist Henri Faucher-Gudin, who illustrated for Gaston Maspero. It shows an eagle-headed genie. According to the ancient Assyrians, a genie was a non-human protective figure. Here the genie is shown with two wings, an eagle head adorned with a feather headdress, and a curved beak with a long tongue. The genie is depicted sprinkling water on a tree (the nodules on the right belong to the tree) with what is probably a pine cone. Perhaps it is fertilizing the tree and perhaps the tree is symbolic of the tree of life. Khorsabad is the present-day name for Dur-Sharrukin, the Assyrian capital at the time when Sargon II ruled Assyria from 722-705 B.C., which lies in northern present-day Iraq.

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This bas-relief from Khorsabad was drawn by French artist Henri Faucher-Gudin, who illustrated for Gaston Maspero. It shows an eagle-headed genie. According to the ancient Assyrians, a genie was a non-human protective figure. Here the genie is shown with two wings, an eagle head adorned with a feather headdress, and a curved beak with a long tongue. The genie is depicted sprinkling water on a tree (the nodules on the right belong to the tree) with what is probably a pine cone. Perhaps it is fertilizing the tree and perhaps the tree is symbolic of the tree of life. Khorsabad is the present-day name for Dur-Sharrukin, the Assyrian capital at the time when Sargon II ruled Assyria from 722-705 B.C., which lies in northern present-day Iraq.

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