Object Image

Terracotta antefix with lion's head

A lion's head mask flanked by the animal's front paws with a guilloche border running along the lower border. Traces of polychromy.

Credit: Gift of a friend of the Museum, 1992

Late 6th century B.C.
Terracotta
16.0 x 16.0cm
1992.36.1
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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