Image
Description
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.12
- Title
- Guardian Lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Cambodia (Khmer)
- Artist Nationality
- Cambodian
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Cambodia (nation)
- probably Angkor
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
- Period
- Cambodia, Angkorian Period (9th-13th centuries)
- Dimensions
- 81.5 cm x 35 cm x 44.5 cm (32 1/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. x 17 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 12th century
- Primary Object Classification and Primary Object Type
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Sculpturemodel
- Physical Description
- A buff sandstone sculpture of a lion, sitting erect with its front legs extended, all on a stone platform. The legs have been fully released from the stone, while surface details such as the curly mane and the tail are carved in low relief. In keeping with its role as a guardian figure, the lion has buldging eyes and its lips are drawn back to reveal sharp teeth.
- Subject Matter
- A stylized lion, of the type that originally stood at the base of stairways to temple buildings of the Khmer empire in Cambodia of the 9th through 13th centuries.
- Primary Keywords
- guardian
- lion
- temple
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- mammals
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by activity
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- Rights
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Collection Access
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- Add to Portfolio
- In public portfolios
- Animals, historical and comparative items: 312, owner: dchoberk kholihan mstang eveba rnhuff hanmcm lgialane ralomi apassiak
- Before 1492 items: 500, owner: rnhuff dchoberk kholihan mstang eveba hanmcm lgialane ralomi apassiak
- History 239: UMMA Objects items: 24, owner: ianmoyer
- History 239: World Before 1492 Objects items: 60, owner: ianmoyer
- lions and dragons items: 12, owner: cstep
System Metadata
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Image Size
- 2016 x 2838
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Record
- 2004/2.12
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Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
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