Figure of a lion, Iron Age, ca. early to mid-1st millennium B.C., Anatolia or Syria, Copper alloy, H. 7-3/8 in. (18.7 cm) x L. 10-1/2 in. (26.7 cm), Metalwork-Sculpture, Although the first half of the first millennium B.C. is known as a period of great metalwork production in the Near East, this lion is a rare surviving metal sculpture in the round. The animal's powerful presence is concentrated in the stylization of the face, executed in a manner that dates this work to the mid-first millennium B
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