Ashurbanipal’s Garden Banquet Relief Recreation. It is about 18.5 inches wide by 12.5 inches tall, resin cast. This scene is of Ashurbanipal in his garden. Notice the grapes clusters. According to Stephanie Dalley the famous hanging gardens of Babylon where actually referring to Ashurbanipal’s gardens in Nineveh. In the Hebrew Bible he is called Asenappar (Hebrew: אָסְנַפַּר‬, - Ezra 4:10). Ashurbanipal II, was King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 668 BC to c. 627 BC, the son of Esarhaddon and the last strong ruler of the empire. He is famed for amassing a significant collection of cuneiform documents for his royal palace at Nineveh.[2] This collection, known as the Library of Ashurbanipal, now in the British Museum. Nineveh was destroyed in 612 BC but many of the library's clay tablets survived the devastation. Ashurbanipal’s palace was excavated in December 1853 and the surviving contents of the library re-discovered. Over 30,000 clay tablets and fragments were uncovered in the library. One famous tablet is the Epic of Gilgamesh that tells of a great flood. He was one of the few kings who could read the cuneiform script in Akkadian and Sumerian, and claimed that he even read texts from before the great flood. From Wikipedia