Glazed brick relief of a striding lion from the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II on display in the Royal Ontario Museum
Striding Lion, a wall relief made from polychrome glazed, fired bricks, is one of the most iconic objects on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. It came from Babylon, Iraq, and dates to the time of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE), king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Striding Lion is one of many such reliefs that decorated the walls of the palace's ceremonial hall and very similar to the lions that line the processional way from the Ishtar Gate to the temple of Marduk.
A large group of such figures is part of the Processional Way leading to the Ishtar Gate, a centrepiece display of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Other panels were sold by Berlin, such as the Panel with striding lion in New York.
StridingLion, a wall relief made from polychrome glazed, fired bricks, is one of the most iconic objects on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto...
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1932). "The Lion of Ishtar". Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University. 4 (3): 144–147. JSTOR 40513763. "Panel with StridingLion". The Metropolitan...
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large totem poles, Nisga'a and Haida; and a Neo-Babylonian wall relief, StridingLion. Ontario is also home to a number of national museums, due to the location...
the Levant c. 8000 BC. Another notable piece in the gallery is the StridingLion, a wall relief from the throne room of Nebuchadnezzar II's palace in...
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presumably depicting either Sargon of Akkad or Sargon's grandson Naram-Sin. Stridinglions from the Processional Street of Babylon. Lamassu, initially depicted...
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