Description
This reclining lion with a raised head shows the compact body shape and other stylistic features typical of Meroitic art.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
10/08/1974
Treatment
cleaned
Exhibitions
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Provenance
Khawam Brothers, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
