Assyrian King Ashurbanipal Historic Art Poster

This ancient Akkadian design shows King Ashurbanipal and his beloved Queen taking a cup of wine in the garden of their estate. This gorgeous wall frieze image is a 2D print of a 3-Dimensional tablet on a sheet of ancient-styled Middle Eastern papyrus. Ashurbanipal (Akkadian: Aššur-bāni-apli, (Aramaic: "ܐܵܫܘܿܪ ܒܵܢܝܼ ܐܵܦܠܝܼ"‎) "Ashur is creator of an heir" (685 B.C. – c. 627 B.C.) was the son of Esarhaddon and the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (668 B.C. – c. 627 B.C.) He established the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East, the Library of Ashurbanipal, which survives in part today at Nineveh. (Sourced from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal)