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This photograph shows a close-up of the guardian lion at the Neo-Hittite site of Ain Dara in northern Syria. This photograph shows the fine carving of the lion; remarkably well-preserved due to the fact that it was buried until unearthed by the archaeologists. The richness of carving suggests that Neo-Hittite sites such as Ain Dara were anything but provincial backwaters and it seems that Hittite craftsmen had moved from the devestated Hittite heartland to take up the employment opportunities in places like Ain Dara that had avoided the calamities that had swept the rest of the Hittite world.
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