The Panel with striding lion (MA 31.13.1) is a panel of

Neo-Babylonian The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and bein ...

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.Panel with striding lion
. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 February 2017 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

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. 57.

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*Dimand, Maurice. "Two Babylonian Reliefs of Enameled Brick." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nr. 26, 1931 * Glubok, Shirley. The Art of Lands in the Bible. New York: Atheneum, 1963 {{refend 7th-century BC works 6th-century BC works 1902 archaeological discoveries Architecture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Babylonian art and architecture Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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