Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old lion adorning citadel gate complex in Turkey

University of Toronto ^ | August 9, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Caption: The stone lion sculpture that adorned the Tayinat citadel gate was uncovered in southeastern Turkey by University of Toronto archaeologists.

Credit: Photo by Jennifer Jackson

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[decimon]

Rock of ages ping.

[King_Corey]

B.C.E. — Uggg, I like to tell the people that put this in that I now call this “Before Christian Era” instead of the B.C. and A.D. they have gone to this Politically Correct Crap. (If you didn’t know that they now say “Before Common Era” which is still the BIRTH OF CHRIST.

Like the Lion pic, excellent article BTW.

[TigersEye]

That is some nice sculpting work.

[EN1 Sailor]

I think the terminology depends on your influences.

Not being PC or an archeologist, I still use BC and AD, as do some friends of mine, but they're loggers and insist that BC and AD stand for "Before Diesel" and "After Chainsaw".

[Tuketu]

BTT

I agree BCE and ACE or whatever is leftist BS and going back to BC WILL SAVE INK and TREES! WOW, are they ever conflicted. First BHO pixxing off the country and the world financially, now chopping trees. Where to turn, where to turn? The ignominy of it all.

[EN1 Sailor]

Note to self: Proofread, proofread, proofread.

"but they're loggers and insist that BC and AD stand for "Before Diesel" and "After Chainsaw"."

That would be "Before Chainsaw" and "After Diesel"

Geez.............

[SunkenCiv]

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[Flag_This]

"That is some nice sculpting work."

The Assyrians were pretty talented too..

[ApplegateRanch]

You know, it occurs to me that it was probably a darn good thing that the European & Palestinian lions were wiped out before the invention of tree huggers & preservationists.

[TigersEye]

That is excellent. Is it 3,000 years old too?

[Flag_This]

"That is excellent. Is it 3,000 years old too?"

The caption for the photo said: "Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, northern Iraq, neo-Assyrian, 883–859BC." so it's in the neighborhood of 3,000 years.

[TigersEye]

I find it very interesting to see the level of craftsmanship in ancient art. Even the cave drawings in France, which are far older, show a good hand at draftsmanship IMO.

[Flag_This]

"Even the cave drawings in France, which are far older, show a good hand at draftsmanship IMO."

I agree. It's hard to believe this was painted in a dark cave 17,000 years ago:

[MaxMax]

I'll give you $10 for the rock, $10k for the Trebuchet that throws it

[TigersEye]

That’s fantastic! That’s better than I remember it. There is a tremendous feeling of motion and power in that. I don’t know what kind of man lived 17k years ago, and crawled on his belly way down into that cave to paint, but he had what I would call real artistic talent on a par with good artists of any age. Thanks.

[TheOldLady]

Bump for the 3000-year-old lion sculpture. Beautiful piece.

[Cronos]

awesome

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 08/09/2011. Thanks decimon.

One of *those* topics.

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