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Posted: 22 Jan 2011

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Lion from a Funerary Monument in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009

Lion from a Funerary Monument in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, October 2009
Lion from a Funerary Monument
Greek, Athenian, late Classical period, about 390 BC
Marble from Mount Pentelikon near Athens

#65.563

Such crouching lions, in pairs, would be set up to "guard" a family plot in the cemetery.

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