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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Median Lion Strangler

500–450 BCE
(550–330 BCE)
Overall: 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.)
Location: Not on view
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” August 17, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Persian Bust,” November 27, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review| 1960.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 10 (December 1960): 223–254. Reproduced: p. 226; Mentioned: p. 252, no. 51 www.jstor.org
    Lazuli, In Lapis, and Dorothy G. Shepherd. “An Achaemenid Sculpture.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 2 (February 1961): 17–25. Reproduced: Cover; Mentioned: p. 18-25 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 12 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 12 archive.org
  • The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962).
    Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1960.175