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Gypsum wall panel relief depicting two musicians, playing a harp and a lyre. One is a young man wearing a feather headdress and the other is a woman wearing a fillet of large beads. A tame lion beneath palms and cypresses appears. The whole...

The Stone Lion of Hamadan, which once had a twin, was part of the old gate of the city of Ecbatana in Persia (modern-day Iran). According to some accounts, the lions were built upon the order of Alexander the Great (r. 336-323 BCE) to commemorate...

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...

Book Cover of Dancing with the Lion: Becoming, written by Dr. Jeanne Reames. Artwork by L.C. Chase Copyright Riptide Publishing, LLC. Reprinted with permission.

A statuette of a lion. Faience. Early Iron Age, 1200-900 BCE. From Tel Megiddo, in modern-day Israel. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

"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

The Lion Tomb is located in the Qasr al-Bint Nabataean Necropolis of Hegra (now in Saudi Arabia). The façade of the tomb is decorated with a carving of two felines on either side of a rosette. The name of the stonemason who carved the tomb...

Book Cover of Dancing with the Lion: Rise, written by Dr. Jeanne Reames. Artwork by L.C. Chase Copyright Riptide Publishing, LLC. Reprinted with permission.

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

A celadon pillow in the form of two lions. 12th century CE, Goryeo Dynasty, Korea. (Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea)