Not on display at Brooklyn Museum anymore? I have deleted the offending paragraphs as infringement (per the note right below the edit box, among other places). And this article dates only to December 5 Parchin's article dates to October.The problem is, that is a blacklisted site, so a) I can't give the link whole, you'll have to splice it together and b) it's blacklisted for a reason, I'd presume. The article appears to bear similarities-and in many cases identical text-from the History section on down to the article located at /article.cfm/sothebys_auction_guennol_lioness on server. contribs) (This comment was left on the main article page and moved here by me. ]] -Preceding unsigned comment added by Boma2007 ( talk Parts of this piece were plagiarized and stolen from Stan Parchin from his article at. Chmyr ( talk) 22:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Copyvio? Sorry about tagging this one for speedy deletion.- Carados ( talk) 04:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Thank you for the image uploaded Chmyr ( talk) 03:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Sorry Wikipedia readers should be entitled to this treasure of ancient civilization. This ancient sculpture has got a great significance in terms of history and archaeology. 6 More historical/contextual information, less collector bragging rights.5 Not on display at Brooklyn Museum anymore?.This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. Ancient Near East Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East Template:WikiProject Ancient Near East Ancient Near East articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ancient Near East, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ancient Near East related articles on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. Sculpture Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture Template:WikiProject Sculpture sculpture articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sculpture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sculpture on Wikipedia. This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: This article has been rated as Start-Class by the WikiProject Vital Articles. The auction price of the Guennol Lioness was surpassed in February 2010 when Alberto Giacometti’s L’Homme qui marche I sold for $104.3 million.Guennol Lioness has been listed as a level-5 vital article in Arts. The previous record was $29.2 million for Picasso’s bronze Tete du Femme (Dora Maar). In 2007 it sold at Sotheby’s as the most expensive sculpture in history: $57.2 million. Sotheby’s described the figure as “one of the last known masterworks from the dawn of civilization remaining in private hands.” His collection is named Guennol after the Welsh word for martin, the bird. It was acquired in 1948 by Alastair Bradley Martin, who was the chairman of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and loaned to that museum. It is from Elam, a civilisation mainly in what is now southwest Iran, on the shore of the Persian Gulf. The Guennol Lioness is Mesopotamian, found near Baghdad by Sir Leonard Woolley on his 1924-34 dig. The wearer would no doubt have been prestigious. Two holes in the top suggest that it may have been worn on a cord around the neck. 5,000 years ago the stakes would have been quite high for the carver to closely observe a lioness. The mysterious and exquisite form is highly stylised, blending female human and lion. It is white magnesite or crystalline limestone, a mere 8.8cm (3 ½ inches) high and it exudes potency. For something so ancient it was crafted with breathtaking artistry and accomplishment. It is contemporaneous with the first known use of the wheel, the development of writing and the first cities. This little sculpture of a muscular leonine figure is 5,000 years old.
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