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This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting a crouching lion. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th century BCE). It has a height of 3.7 cm and a length of 6.4 cm. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) ©The...

This replica of prehistoric statuette depicts a lion-man hybrid. It was made from the ivory of mammoth. This specimen was discovered in a cave near the town of Holenstein-Stadel, Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is 30,000 years old and the...

"Yvain rescues the lion", miniature from Garrett MS. No. 125 (ca. 1295 CE) kept at Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Ivory head of a lion, part of the so-called "Nimrud Ivories" that decorated chariots, high-status furniture, and horse trappings. They were covered with thin gold leaf or ornamented with semiprecious stones. From Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) northern...

This limestone statue of a lion (of a pair) was guarding the main entrance to the 4th temple at Hatra dedicated to the goddess Ishtar. From Hatra, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Parthian period, 1st to 3rd century CE . On display at the Iraq Museum...

North American Mountain Lion (cougar) - puma concolor couguar - photographed by the National Park Service in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.

One side of this heavy weight is inscribed in Aramaic with "correct according to the stater of silver". This probably refers to the use of a weight standard based on the silver coins known as staters. This object weighs just over 31 kg, which...

Colossal statue of a winged lion from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian Empire, c. 883-859 BCE. This is one of a pair of guardian figures that flanked one of the entrances...

This relief may depict Alexander with the lion skin of Hercules, fighting a lion on foot. His friend Krateros (on horseback) rescues him. The lion hunt is a common image in Near Eastern art. This relief formed part of the base of a statue...

A lion-shaped statue made of dolerite, standing at 1.9 meters high, 2.9–3.05 meters long, and 0.85–0.9 meters wide. The lion come from Sam'al, modern Zincirli, dates between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE, and was located with another lion...