3597302 Foreign groom in a tributary procession, c.721-05 B.C. (gypsum alabaster) by Neo-Assyrian; 48.9x78.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The Assyrian king Sargon II of Akkad (r. 721??05 B.C.) founded a new capital city Dur-Sharrukin (literally "fortress of Sargon", now Khorsabad), at a site known today as Khorsabad, Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia This relief fragment from the main palace shows a foreign groom as part of a larger scene of a foreign delegation bringing tribute to Assyria, in this case the horses themselves. ); out of copyright.