A SYRIAN COPPER ALLOY LION
A SYRIAN COPPER ALLOY LION

LATE URUK PERIOD, CIRCA MID 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A SYRIAN COPPER ALLOY LION
LATE URUK PERIOD, CIRCA MID 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Solid cast, standing with the left legs advanced, the long tail curving out, the mane a series of incised, concentric curving lines, the pattern extending along the flank, the ruff with incised striations, the eyes recessed for now-missing inlays, the semicircular ears nearly flat against the head
8 in. (20.3 cm.) long
來源
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired in the 1920-1930s, thence by descent.
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired in 1959.
Acquired by the current owner in 1989.

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G. Max Bernheimer
G. Max Bernheimer

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For a silver lion of similar style and date, preserving the eye inlays, see no. 64 in Aruz, Benzel and Evans, Art of the First Cities, The Third Millennium B.C., from the Mediterranean to the Indus.