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Striding Lion : ウィキペディア英語版 | Striding Lion
The Striding Lion is one of the most iconic objects on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. It is a wall relief of a striding lion made from polychrome glazed fired bricks. It comes from Babylon, Iraq, dating to the time of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE), king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. It is one of many such reliefs that decorated the walls of the palace’s ceremonial hall and very similar to the lions that line the processional way from the Ishtar Gate to the temple of Marduk. == Description == The relief measures 122 cm (height) by 183 cm (width) by 8 cm (depth).〔Striding Lion. #25 of 66 images with description provided on the Royal Ontario Museum website. (), retrieved February 25, 2013.〕 Some of the individual bricks are stamped with the following inscription: “Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the first born son of Nabopolassar, the king of Babylon”.〔Striding Lion podcast made by the Royal Ontario Museum. (), accessed March 20, 2013.〕
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