In 1989 Muzahem Mahmud Hussein found the second of four rich tombs in the harem section of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. The tomb contained the burials of Yaba, queen of Tiglathpileser III, and of Atalia, queen of Sargon II, and the tomb can therefore be dated to the last decades of the eighth century BC. This paper concerns three pairs of bracelets from Tomb II, and focuses in particular on the strange iconography of one of the pairs.David is one of my oldest and dearest friends. We met at the Institute of Archaeology in 1962 where we were both students. Our common interest in Anatolia meant that subsequently we frequently met in Turkey, and we still do. We took part in the same excavations at Kayahdere in Urartu (see this volume), and in a conference on Urartu involving an epic journey to Van that had us rather uncomfortably sharing the co-driver's bed behind the back seats of a bus during the day-time journey from Yozgat to Erzerum! More recently we visited the Hittite equivalent of a Hittite garden gnome-centre at Yesemek.In the 1960s, as a Belgian national I was a "fiendish foreigner", and although I worked as a special assistant in the British Museum for years, I was only able to get a "proper" job years later after the law was changed. David fed me articles that needed typing (he still does not type!), and the brackets, diacritics, double and single underlining, and so on, needed for the transliteration of Luwian inscriptions in the days before computers, taxed my limited typing skills to the utmost, and I'm sure he always overpaid me. This was a task I resumed when I came back from New York in 1975 after obtaining my PhD there. David also trained me up to edit the journal Iraq so that I was able to step into Donald Wiseman's shoes as co-editor with David in 1979. I was still without a "proper" job and it was only years later that I discovered that David had negotiated a pay-rise for us as editors that he had not claimed for himself. David retired after being editor for 25 years and Andrew George and I have worked in tandem since then. The present volume of Iraq will be my thirty-second and my last as editor. I wanted to be able to work on the present volume and honour a distinguished and generous colleague and a great friend. Thank you David.