TÜRKÇE
Portal lion
The basalt portal lion was found in Hama citadel during the Danish excavation in 1935 in situ at the north wing of the east entrance of room E in Building I. It is carved as a protome with only the front section of the lion at the end of an approximately 2.70-meter-long rectangular block. It has suffered heavy damage and is heavily fragmented. Its counterpart at the south wing was mostly destroyed. The lion stands about 1.70 m high and 0.86 m wide. Dated to around 900 BCE and currently in the National Museum in Copenhagen.
