大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 7月3日 02時54分

This week we're highlighting some of the important sacred statues in the Museum.
This fierce, 15-tonne lion symbolised Ishtar, the Assyrian goddess of war, and guarded the entrance to her temple. The cuneiform inscription gives the name of the temple's builder, the neo-Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859 BC). Large stone sculptures and reliefs of mythological figures were a striking feature of the palaces and temples of ancient Assyria.

Colossal guardian lion. Assyrian, about 865-860 BC. From Nimrud (now in modern Iraq).
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