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Portal lion
The basalt portal lion was found in Hama citadel during the Danish excavation in 1936 in situ at the south wing of the east entrance of room A in Building III. The roughly 1.8-meter-long rectangular block suffered heavy damage and was fragmented. Its head is not recovered. Like several others found at the site, the lion is carved as a statue in front and as low relief at the back on the door-facing side. Its counterpart at the north wing was almost completely destroyed. It is about 0.77 m high and 0.51 m wide. Dated to around 900 BCE.
