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Portal lion

The basalt portal lion was found in Hama citadel during the Danish excavation in 1937 in secondary context at the courtyard in front of the buildings I-III. It is about 1.17 m long, 0.64 m high, and 0.55 m wide. Its broken ears, muzzle, and eyes had been restored in Aleppo Museum (last image below). Dated to around 900 BCE.


Hama portal lion - Riis & Buhl, 1990 Hama portal lion - Riis & Buhl, 1990 Hama portal lion as restored - Riis & Buhl, 1990


Literature:
Fugmann, E. Hama II.1 - L'architecture des périodes pré-hellénistiques, Copenhagen, 1958. (145–46, 192–93, 203)
Orthmann, W. Untersuchungen zur späthethitischen Kunst, Bonn, 1971 (Hama C/3).
Riis, P. J. and M.-L. Buhl. Hama II.2 - Les objets de la période dite syro-hittite (âge du fer), Copenhagen, 1990. (46–48; No. 27)


Image sources:
P. J. Riis & M.-L. Buhl, 1990.