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Ornament with heads of roaring lions, possibly the terminal of a sword or dagger hilt
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Limestone, lapis lazuli, faience inlay
- Dimensions
- 3 11/16 × 1 13/16 × 1 9/16 in. (9.4 × 4.6 × 4 cm)
- Culture
- Assyrian
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Dated
- ca. 8th century BCE
- Pixels
- 4000 × 2998
- SHA-256
- f39ac82082e27627…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Ornament with heads of roaring lions, possibly the terminal of a sword or dagger hilt. ca. 8th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.