This sculpture group of two winged bulls with human faces flanks a doorway in the Mesopotamian wing of the Louvre.
These colossal stone figures, are called "lamassu", and are shown from the side, sculpted with five legs,
so that the viewer would see four legs from any point of view as well as making the lamassu appear to be striding forward.
From the front the figures appear to be standing still, and have the facial features of a ruler with a multi-tiered headdress, symbolic of great power.

FIgures like these would have flanked the entrance gate to the immense walls of an Assyrian city between the 9th-7th c. BC. ,
or the immense palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, as well as at other citadels in Iraq.

The figure to the left of the lamassu is holding a lion baring his teeth, symbolic of the warlike Assyrian people.
Details of this figure can be seen in the next image.

The monumental size of the figures can be seen by comparing the two men standing in front of the winged bull
on the far side of the doorway.
It is easy to see how these large figures would impress enemies or anyone approaching the entrance of an Assyrian city.