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Painel com leão em posicão de marcha

ca. 604–562 BCE
Not on view
Quando Nabucodonosor mandou reconstruir a antiga cidade da Babilônia, em meados do primeiro milênio a.C., as paredes dos templos e palácios foram decoradas com painéis de ladrilhos vitrificados de cores brilhantes representando imagens coloridas de bestas míticas protetoras e animais sagrados para os deuses. Este leão, simbolizando os poderes da deusa babilônica Ishtar, era um dos aproximadamente cento e vinte leões que recobriam as paredes da Via Processional na Babilônia. Sua função era proteger esse caminho sagrado, sobretudo quando as estátuas dos deuses babilônicos passavam por ele e pela portal de Ishtar, ao longo da rota para o templo onde é celebrado o Festival de Ano Novo.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Painel com leão em posicão de marcha
  • Período: Periodo neobabilônico, reinado de Nabucodonosor II
  • Data: 604–562 a.C.
  • Geografia: Mesopotâmia, escavado na Babilônia (Hillah moderna)
  • Meio: Ladrilho vitrificado
  • Dimensões: 97,2 cm de altura
  • Linha de créditos: Fundo Fletcher, 1931
  • Número de acesso: 31.13.2
  • Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art

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