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Sarah Graff
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“It always had this possibility to come alive in a very real sense.”

Curator Sarah Graff on two Babylonian panels with striding lions.

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Sarah Graff
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

Panel with striding lion, Ceramic, glaze, Babylonian
Panel with striding lion
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE
Panel with striding lion, Ceramic, glaze, Babylonian
Panel with striding lion
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE

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