The well-adhered red and green patina formed naturally during centuries of burial. Partial cleaning has revealed the multicolored surface. Figure of a Lion, Anatolia or Syria, 1st millennium BCE, H. 18.7 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, and funds from various donors, inv. 2002.457 a–b).