Ancients: Lions

You can just see / actually FEEL the snarl in the lion's face... Beautiful piece AJ!

 

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Here is my favorite snarl:

MYSIA. Kyzikos.
AR Obol ca. 450-400 B.C.
0.85 grams, 11 mm
Obv: Forepart of razor-back boar left,
tunny upward behind
Rev: Head of roaring lion facing left
within incuse square
Grade: gEF fully struck, Almost mint on
porosity-free, choice flan. All lion &
boar details present w/ partial tunny
Other: Similar to Sear 3848 but w/o K;
Von Fritze II 9; SNG France 361-72;
SNG von Aulock 1213; SNG Kayhan 54.
From Barry Murphy May 2013.

 

Wonderful Lion, and the Boar is just egging me to go Pig hunting!

 

No lions here, but awesome coins everyone!

 

There was several times I was thinking to buy this type obol, but every time not go to the final with this and now I know why... this obol from @Collect89 amazing and much more better than all I have seen.... such quality coin is a correct aim for hunting!

 

I took this photograph from a wall moulding in Pompeii. Not sure what it would be called. Half lion-half fish being ridden by a Cupid. Nobody said it had to be a coin did they and it's certainly ancient.

 

I love search engines. I made up a word for this: Leocamp. Then I searched and found out that actually was what you call it. Taking Latin fifty years ago was not a waste after all.
http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/Z34.8.html

 

I do very love this lion and bull from Persepolis.

 

A lion's head on a single lion's leg forming each leg of a marble tripod table base also from Pompeii.

 

Well, how about the Lion-Gate of Mycenae....

 

Amazing. Wish I had one too!

 

Well, since we've moved on from coins ...


Lion of Ishtar
Processional Way of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, circa 6th century BC.
Built by King Nebuchadnezzar II
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

Ah-- that bas relief brick looks familiar. Maybe we discussed your avatar before but if so I don't remember.

I see now that your avi is also from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon

image from tumblr; dragon of the god Marduk

 

I wondered if anyone would spot that . They have a really nice selection of antiquities in that museum.

 

@zumbly the style of the lion head of this babylonian bas relief together with some assyrian examples are very close to my avatar. So, I am always looking on this simple example of hekte as an etalon of great assyrian-babylonian culture in lion images. From this point of view this type hektes are amazing!

 

Ummm, we have the world's largest Robert Bateman Wolf-painting ...

 

Great pics of the ancient lions & lion-like everyone! Wanted to add in my pic from Pompei
Here is Lion/Eagle/Man fresco I shot at Pompei:

 

That must be fun to have staring at you in the dead of night

 

here's the ones i could find. the 1st one is a lion obverse i believe, but i'm not sure. i haven't been able to attribute it. any help from the group would be great. and the second coins are of king james ll cyprus 1460-73 crusaders

 

aww, ya shot it? >< jk.