Figure of a Lion in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Figure of a lion

Period: Iron Age

Date: ca. early to mid-1st millennium B.C.

Geography: Anatolia or Syria

Medium: Copper alloy

Dimensions: H. 7-3/8 in. (18.7 cm) x L. 10-1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

Classification: Metalwork-Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, and funds from various donors, 2002

Accession Number: 2002.457a, b

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/3000...