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Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
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Ivory, Neo-Assyrian, Assyrian
Ancient Near Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1962
Title: Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
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Ivory, Neo-Assyrian, Assyrian.
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