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The Albani lion is a 1st-century Roman green basalt lion statue with a yellow marble sphere under one paw, in the Albani Collection in the Denon Wing of the Louvre (inventory number Ma 1355) in Paris, France.[1]The Albani lion is possibly a reproduction of an earlier Greek bronze statue, as basalt was used in the 1st century AD for reproductions of Greek bronzes.[1] See also- Medici lions
- Marzocco
- Cultural depictions of lions
- Chinese guardian lions
References1. ^1 louvre.fr (in French)
Literature- Richard Delbrueck: Antike Porphyrwerke, Berlin/Leipzig 1932 (Studien zur spätantiken Kunstgeschichte 6), page 60 (in German, referenced on [https://books.google.com/books?hl=sv&id=UHPTNK8Y_WgC&q=l%C3%B6we#v=onepage&q=1355&f=false Google Books] and uni-koeln.de)
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