Corbridge Lion
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corbridge-lion-310-15468403
title:
Corbridge Lion
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The Corbridge Lion, Northumberland, England, is an ancient Roman free-standing sandstone sculpture of a male lion standing on a prone animal on a semi-cylindrical coping stone base. Measuring 0.95m in length by 0.36m in width and 0.87m high, it was originally a piece of decorative funerary ornamentation from a tomb. It was subsequently re-used as a fountainhead by passing a water pipe through its mouth. It was found in a water tank in 1907 in excavations led by Leonard Woolley on Site II on the
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Ancient Roman sandstone sculpture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbridge_Lion
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2024-02-05T16:42:48Z
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