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Buff tile with red and black decoration in high relief; lion rearing to right over inverted lotus with a key border.
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Title: Terracotta architectural tile
Period: Archaic
Date: 6th century BCE
Culture: Lydian
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 11 1/4 × 12 3/4 × 2 in. (28.6 × 32.4 × 5.1 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926
Object Number: 26.164.16
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