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Date : approx. between 332 and 305 B.C.
Material : Limestone
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1912)
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Ancient Egypt
Sculpture
Area related
Egypte
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This lion is closely resembles one of the Fourth Century B.C. from Cnidos on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. In Egyptian art the pose goes back to the Seventeenth Dynasty. A Greek inscription on the base of the lion reads : "Epiteka set up (this monument) for Thenopheros for a good purpose".
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