Lions in the Tareq Rajab Museum

The representation of lions became popular in Egypt during the Fatimid period. Soon after they appeared in the arts of Moorish Spain and Saljuq Iran, they were pained on pottery, and decorated metalwork, and they were also introduced as two-dimensional figures decorating bronze vessels, or as three-dimensional figurines. The Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait possesses numerous lions of almost every category. In this paper only the two- and three-dimensional examples are examined.