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Head
and Foreleg of a Snarling Lion; Neo-Assyrian
period, 9th–8th century B.C.; Assyrian
style
Mesopotamia;
excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu),
Northwest Palace, well in Room NN
Expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Ivory
Rogers Fund, 1954 (54.117.6)
This exquisitely carved fragment was recovered from a well near
the domestic quarters of the palace. Perhaps it was thrown there
by the destroyers of Nimrud in the late seventh century B.C. The
stylization of the head and the leg muscles suggest that this sculpture
is Assyrian in workmanship.
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