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Lion of Allat

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Original – The Lion of Al-lāt was an ancient statue of a lion with a crouching gazelle which adorned the temple of pre-Islamic goddess Al-lāt in Palmyra, Syria. Made from limestone in the 1st century AD, the statue measured 3.5 m in height and weighed 15 tonnes. On 27 June 2015 the statue was demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Reason

This monument has been recently demolished by ISIL, but I think we got a decent freely licensed photo before demolition, especially since it cannot be retaken. A bitter irony is that the statue had an inscription "Al-lāt will bless whoever will not shed blood in the sanctuary", symbolizing everything ISIL is not.

Articles in which this image appears

Lion of Al-lāt, Palmyra

FP category for this image

Artwork/Sculpture

Creator

Mappo

• Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 09:29, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Pretty good pic with valuable EV; lengthy, well-documented target article. Sca (talk) 14:40, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support Not a perfect pic, but, sadly, not retakeable. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:59, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
• Weak support - EV an irreplaceability pushes aside most of the technical issues, but I wonder if it might be straightened a bit more. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:40, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support Gazelle not shown to scale or that is one humongous lion. Belle (talk) 22:07, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
• Weak support - EV as Crisco say, of course, but it is a bit of a technical issues with it... Hafspajen (talk) 00:08, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Jobas (talk) 18:37, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Lion in the garden of Palmyra Archeological Museum, 2010-04-21.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:30, 29 July 2015 (UTC)