Furniture support: lion's leg, ca. 18th century

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Furniture support: lion's leg, Middle Bronze Age–Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century , Anatolia, probably from Acemhöyük, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), x in. ( x cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, This piece is one of several furniture elements, carved in the form of lion legs, probably found at the site of a palace at Acemhöyük in central Anatolia. The massive size of the upper part of the leg suggests this represents the animal’s rear leg

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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