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survived in Mesopotamia until the nineteenth century, and there are several references to
them by travellers of that period.
In Al-Jaleel (Galilee) there is a hill called Tel el Assad (Lion Hill in Arabic), and there is
a village nearby called Deir el Assad (Monastery of the Lion), that