
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
- Date
- ca. 9th–8th century BCE
- Medium
- Ivory
- Culture
- Assyrian
- Department
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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