Felines Hunting

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@peter @Shadow @Rishi The animal in the bottom right of the picture, with what appears to be the head of a bull, looks more like a tiger than a lion (though it looks yellow-brown like a lion, rather than orange-red like a tiger, the end of its tail looks bushy like that of a lion, and it does not appear to be fully striped, maybe it is due to the state of the ancient fresco), with what appears to be a cheetah in the bottom left of the picture. It is part of the fresco at the ancient synagogue (possibly dating to the 3rd century C.E.) of Dura Europos (Δοῦρα Εὐρωπός), which is located on the banks of the Euphrates River in the Mesopotamian part of Syria, near the border with Iraq, and about 84 km (52 miles) southeast of the city of Deir ez-Zor (دير ٱلزّور, which is also on the banks of the Euphrates). It illustrates a scene from the Book of Esther, which is in the section of Ketuvim ("Writings") in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible): http://www.library.yale.edu/exhibition/j...sml.2.html
   

A view of excavations at Dura Europos and the Euphrates River nearby, which is important for the Mesopotamian ecosystem (which encompasses much of Iraq, with Syria, Turkey, Iran and Kuwait having parts of it, and which once had the Asiatic lion & cheetah, and the Caspian tiger). Credit: Marina Milella (19th of June, 2016, 15:33:33)
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