Panel with striding lion

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The Panel with striding lion (MA 31.13.1) is a panel of Neo-Babylonian glazed ceramic bricks or tiles dated to 604–562 B.C., now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It was one of many that lined the Processional Way north of the Ishtar Gate. It was excavated by R. Koldewey in 1902, and at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from 1926, before coming into the possession of the Met in 1931."[http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322585 Panel with striding lion]". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 February 2017Glubok, 18

A large group of such figures is part of the Processional Way leading to the Ishtar Gate, a centrepiece display of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

Lions were symbolic of royalty because of their strength, and fighting a lion gave a king great prestige.Striding Lion. #25 of 66 images with description provided on the Royal Ontario Museum website. [http://images.rom.on.ca/public/index.php?function=home&sid=&ccid=], retrieved February 25, 2013. The lion was also the symbol of Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. In her role of the goddess of war she is depicted on a chariot drawn by seven lions with bow in hand Guirand, F. 1959. Assyro-Babylonian Mythology, p. 57. In R. Graves (ed.), Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, 49-72. London: Paul Hamlyn.

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