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 Sculpture. 59 bestowed upon some of the details — the paws, for instance, which, though adhering, stand out from the mass by their great salience of contour ; special attention being given to the head, which is quite free. Fig. 275.— The Merash Lion. Height, 88 c. Wright, The Empire^ Plate XXVIL The Merash lion, with inscribed characters, may be taken as type of the figures which stood one on each side of a palatial entrance (Fig. 275). The inscription, it has been remarked, was only on one side, the other being left flat ; hence, the assump- tion that it stood against a wall, and was faced by a second, both