Stone sculpture of a Lioness in Mesopotamia
Known as the "Guennol Lioness", the piece is a little more than 8 centimeters tall and is presumed to have been made about 5,000 years ago during the Mesopotamia civilization. Mesopotamia, the Two Rivers Valley region is regarded as one of the earliest birthplaces of human civilization. Sotheby's describes this as the last masterpiece of the genesis of human civilization left in the hands of private collectors. The "Lioness Of Grantor" is a standing lioness stone statue. The lioness's two front paws (similar to the shape of a human forked fist) are on the muscular chest, and the head is turned to the left, with a serious and solemn look. After Martin, a private American collector, purchased the Lioness of Grove in 1948, the ancient statue has been on public display at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. (Part of the picture from beads and civilization)
This time, Sotheby's auction company sold for more than 40 million US dollars, amounting to about 300 million yuan. It is currently the highest record of the same kind of carving.
Lioness faces and so on have connotations that belong to the Fuxi civilization that can be interpreted.
This focuses on the back ornamentation, with its prominence, also for those of cousin ancestry.
Silver cow descriptor
Proto-Elam period (3100 - 2700 BCE)
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum
The "Statue of Kilia" was excavated in Turkey and sold for $14,471,500, far exceeding the pre-auction estimate. (Pre-auction estimate of $3 million).)
At the end of the 19th century, the ancient city of Kilia in the Garibaldi region of Kale, Ghana, was little known in Turkey, and an American archaeologist found the idols there and brought them back to the American Archaeological Center in Athens. According to the place of discovery, they were named the idols of Kilia. The Kiria style, represented by the statues of Kilia, was in a period of transition to the Bronze Age, when marble was cut using pumice and subsequently polished with bubble stone and leather. This horizontal eggshell-shaped tilted sideways upwards of the head contour makes it difficult to carve the eyes and ears, and the nose is unusually prominent. The deity has a slender neck, broad shoulders, and legs that are wing-like. Some of the 6- to 23-centimeter-tall statues have a base that sits directly on the flat floor, while some have a metatarsal area that resembles a ballet dancer's foot.