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Attic black-figure globular aryballos decorated with sphinxes and lions. Artist unknown; 1st half of 6th cent. BCE. Now in the Dallas Museum of Art.
Silver tetradrachm of Leontinoi with laureate head of Apollo (obverse) and lion’s head surrounded by barley corns (reverse)
Greek (minted at Leontinoi, Sicily), Classical Period, 466-422 B.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source: mfa.org
“Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Tachara Palace (Palace of Darius), North Wall of Main Hall, East Jamb of Western Doorway: Detail View of Relief with Design of Lions on Hem of King's Gown”
1923-1934
glass negative from the Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Freer and Sackler Archives
Source: siris-archives.si.edu
“Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Tachara Palace (Palace of Darius), Central Facade of Southern Stairway: Detail View of Relief Picturing a Lion Attacking”
1923-1928
glass negative from the Ernst Herzfeld Papers
Freer and Sackler Archives
Source: siris-archives.si.edu
Head of a roaring lion
Neo-Assyrian (from Nimrud), c. 9th-8th centuries B.C.
ivory
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Two panels with striding lions from the Processional Way in Babylon
Neo-Babylonian, c. 604-562 B.C.
Ceramic with glaze
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Marble statue of a lion
Greek, c. 400-390 B.C. (said to be taken to Rome during Imperial Period and found in Trastavere, Rome)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
Achaemenid, c. 5th century B.C.
gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Plaque with horned lion-griffins (and detail)
Achaemenid, c. 6th-4th century B.C.
gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Applique in the shape of a lion's head
Achaemenid, c. 6th to 4th century B.C.
gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: metmuseum.org
Statue of a lion
Greek or Etruscan, Archaic Period, 6th century B.C.
bronze
Walters Art Museum
Source: art.thewalters.org
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Bronze statue of crouching lion
6.3cm high and 14.3cm long.
Greek or Roman, estimated between 500 and 300 BC.
Probably from Etruria.
Source: Metropolitan Museum
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“The Godess Diana with a Lion” Angelo VonCourten
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An Egyptian artist’s sketch of pharaoh spearing a lion.
New Kingdom, Dynasty 20, ca. 1186–1070 B.C.E.
In this lively hunting scene, an unidentified Ramesside pharaoh is represented symbolically slaying the enemies of Egypt in the form of a lion.
The hieratic text reads: “The slaughter of every foreign land, the Pharaoh—may he live, prosper, and be healthy.”
This ostracon, a limestone chip used for sketching, was found in the Valley of the Kings during excavations conducted by Howard Carter on behalf of the Earl of Carnarvon, who received the piece in the division of finds. Although many of the figured ostraca discovered in this royal cemetery were clearly trial sketches made to facilitate an artist’s work, this scene is not found in royal tombs, nor do the figures conform to the strict proportions of a formal rendering.
The scene was drawn with great economy of line by the confident hand of a skilled artist who required no grid lines as a guide. It may have been done for the amusement of the maker, or it may graphically represent the artist’s hope that the ruler should be a strong protector of Egypt.
Courtesy & currently located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, via their online collections.
Source: metmuseum.org
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A silver Dekadrachm
On this coin we see Syracuse with quadriga and a chariot. Underneath the chariot there is a lion.
Greek
Archaic Period, about 470 - 465 BC
Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Lion Head Bracelet
late 6th Century BC
Etruscan
The blue glass hoop of the bracelet terminates at each end with a lion head made of sheet gold. Behind the base of each lion head is a collar decorated with two spirals and a palmette in filigree. The four loosely fitted gold bands on the hoop slide back and forth. This is a very rare piece; one other complete example that has survived is a bracelet found in a tomb in Monte Autò, now in the Museo di Villa Giulia in Rome. Fragments of glass hoops have been found in Italy, indicating Etruscan workmanship, though the style of these lion heads appears to be Greek. The Benaki Museum in Athens has a pair of animal finials in the form of rams from a necklace of the same type, but the hoop is missing. Depictions of lions were common in art all over the ancient world, from Egypt and the Near East westward. They had a range of meanings: royal power, fertility, guardian spirits, warlike prowess and triumph, and in some cases perhaps triumph over death.
Source: Dallas Museum of Art