ancientanimalart:Panel with striding lionNeo-Babylonian604-562 BCE “The lion was sacred to Ishtar, t
ancientanimalart:Panel with striding lionNeo-Babylonian604-562 BCE “The lion was sacred to Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love and war. This striding beast is one of more than a hundred that once lined the lower portion of the walls of a processional way that passed through the Ishtar Gate in ancient Babylon.”RISD Museum -- source link
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