Title: Lion head mounted on a modern whetstone
Object type: Sculpture
Date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE
Culture: Achaemenid
Period: Achaemenid
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: 1.75 in. (4.45 cm)
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1950
Geography:      Iran     
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Lions