"Italian Roman Marble Lion XIIth Century"
12th CENTURY ITALIAN ROMAN MARBLE LION with a stylized mane and tail wrapped around its body and hips, the front legs slightly bent, on a rectangular integral base. a portico, as at the cathedrals of Modena, Assisi and Parma, which all share the small head and stylized mane of the Romanesque lion. The lion offered here bears no markings on its back suggesting that it did not once carry a column on its back, indicating that it was a flanking sculpture, possibly beside a doorway or a wall. 
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