“It always had this possibility to come alive in a very real sense.”
Curator Sarah Graff on two Babylonian panels with striding lions.
Bricks
Sarah Graff
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Contributors
Sarah Graff
Associate Curator, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
Associate Curator, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
Photography by Peter Zeray
"Dawn over the Euphrates, Babylon, 1900" by Walter Andrae courtesy of Berlin State Library, Department of Manuscripts, Walter Andrae estate
Art Mentioned
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE
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