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| Stone lion guardians (10th-8thC BCE) from inner gate of Sam'al (Zincirli) in Turkey at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Stone lion guardians (10th-8thC BCE) from inner gate of Sam'al (Zincirli) in Turkey at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Stone lion guardians (10th-8thC BCE) from inner gate of Sam'al (Zincirli) in Turkey at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Basalt relief carving of lion hunt scene on foot & horse-drawn chariot (750 BCE) from ruins of city near Sakçegözü in Turkey at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. |
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| Assyrian schedu lamassu, a human headed, winged lion with horned crown cast from British Museum at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Detail of face of Assyrian schedu lamassu, a human headed, winged lion with horned crown cast from British Museum at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Babylonian relief of hero training a lion (c710 BC) from citadel of Dur-Sharukkin at the Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Reconstructed Processional Way of Babylon (6thC BCE) with each lion unique at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. |
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| Babylon Processional Way lion at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Babylon Processional Way lion at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Detail head of Babylon Processional Way lion at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Detail head of Babylon Processional Way lion at Pergamon Museum. Berlin, Germany. |
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| Babylonian terracotta brick lion relief (c605-562 BCE) at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. | Lion block Persian mural from Suse at the Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Babylonian lion relief from processional way (c605-562 BCE) at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. | Heads of Mycenae Lion Gate were once pegged in place. Greece. |
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| Carved Greek marble lion relief (c640 BCE) from north of Aegean Sea at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Greek terracotta red-figure water jar with Herakles fighting Nemean Lion (c470 BCE) from Athens at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA. | Details of Greek terracotta red-figure krater with Herakles fighting Nemean Lion (c480 BCE) from Athens at Getty Museum Villa. Malibu, CA. | Black figure amphora from 550 to 530 BC with griffin and two lions at Cycladic Art Museum in Athens. Greece. |
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| Funerary marble lion (c350 BCE) from Athens at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Ancient Greek lion funerary monument (c390 BCE) from near Athens at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Greek lion (c325 BCE) from Attica at Nelson-Atkins Museum. Kansas City, MO. | Lion sculpture supports column at Gardner Museum. Boston, MA. |
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| Lion holding human sculpture supports column at Gardner Museum. Boston, MA. | Lion onyx cameo (middle 1stC) at Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria. | Detail of lion on Roman marble sarcophagus (2ndC CE) from Dokimeion, now Afyon, Turkey at RISD Museum. Providence, RI. | Roman lion hunting carved stone sarcophagus (270-290) at Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria. |
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| Lion detail of Triumph of Bacchus marble sarcophagus (3rdC) at Gallo Roman Museum. Lyon, France. | Sarcophagus front relief of lion hunt (3rdC CE) at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Detail of relief with two lions & dove on Geghart Church near Garni. Armenia. | Centaur archer hunting a lion carved over arch in Cormac's Chapel at Rock of Cashel. Cashel, Ireland. |
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| Sandstone lion relief (c1200) with archangel Gabriel & St Leonard from church of San Leonardo at Zamora, Spain at The Cloisters. New York, NY. | French ivory casket panels show Courtly Romances knight against lion (1330-50) at Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH. | Goat, long-beaked bird & lion gargoyles on Cathedral. Reims, France. | Virgin & child with two lions over central door of Cathedral. Strasbourg, France. |
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| Lion gargoyle on Cathedral. Strasbourg, France. | Stone garden bench with carved lion at Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, France. | Sculpture of lion attacking horse in Belvedere octagonal court, Vatican Museum. Vatican City. | Pictish Droston stone front detail of lace of cross edged by compressed camel & lion at St Vigeans Museum. Arbroath, Scotland. |
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| Pictish grave marker with lion at St Vigeans Museum. Arbroath, Scotland. | Pictish cross-slab (back of #2) with strips showing mounted huntsmen with dogs, mounted warriors, the Vanora execution by lions scene (or Daniel in lion's den) at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum. Meigle, Scotland. | Pictish graveslab (#26) edge detail with lion & griffin at Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum. Meigle, Scotland. |
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