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Lions
ID: TCMCAL10 · © Carl Rasmussen · Added: 2013

Lions

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A set of lions that guarded the entrance to a 13th century Hittite temple at Alalakh.

Note the eyes, the manes, and the one remaining fang.

These lions are on display in the Archaeological Museum in Antioch (on the Orontes).