Figurine of a free-standing lion

Title

Figurine of a free-standing lion
Associated place

Tell Uhaimir (HMR 620, 'House Ruins', room 12) (place of excavation)
Date

Old Babylonian (c. 1900 - 1600 BC)
Akkadian Empire (c. 2350 - 2150 BC)
Ur III (c. 2112 - 2004 BC)
Isin-Larsa Period (2000 - 1800 BC)
Old Babylonian (c. 1900 - 1600 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta, with traces of red paint
Object type

figurine
Dimensions

10.8 cm (length)
8 cm (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Oxford Field Museum Expedition to Kish, 1924.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1924.254

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Catalogue text

Hand-made; baked; buff fabric with traces of red paint over what may originally have been a plastered surface; only one leg survives; head slightly raised with jaws open as if roaring.

In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)

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