Reconstructed Brick Panel
![Reconstructed brick wall with a striding lion shown in profile. The background is a dark peacock green and the lion is grayish brown. The wall has a mosaic pattern, that is molded and glazed.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/brick-lion-2/@@images/8f3d33bb-1bd5-425b-8a7a-3f2f8a503d34.jpeg)
Reconstructed Brick Panel
- Description:
- Reconstructed panel of bricks with a striding lion
- Medium:
- Molded and glazed baked clay
- Location:
- Processional Way, El-Kasr Mound, Babylon, Iraq
- Dimensions:
- H. 99.7 cm; W. 230.5 cm
- Date:
- Neo-Babylonian Period (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604—562 BCE)
- Inventory Number:
- 31.13.2
- Lender:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit:
- Fletcher Fund, 1931
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY