Recumbent Lion
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Recumbent Lion
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Published 2017-04-25T10:52:34+00:00
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This imposing lion once guarded the entrance to a pyramid-age sanctuary. As most powerful predator of the steppes bordering the Nile Valley, the lion was a symbol of royalty from early on. The animal - especially the female - also embodied a number of deities. This work is the earliest extant example of a lifesize lion statue that is almost entirely preserved. It was excavated by the British Egypt Exploration Fund in 1891, at Herakleopolis Magna in the Nile Valley, southeast of the Fayum oasis.
Granite, muzzle is a modern reconstruction.
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Technical Information
| Date published | 25/04/2017 |
| Schwierigkeitsgrad | Very Easy |
More Information
| Title | Recumbent Lion |
| Date | 2575-2465 BC |
| Accession | 810 F |
| Period | Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty |
| Medium | Granite |
| Credit | Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in honor of Annette de la Renta; Annette de la Renta Gift; and John V. Hansen Egyptian Purchase Fund, 2000 (2000.485) |
| Place | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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