The **Chimera of Arezzo** is an ancient **Etruscan** bronze currently in the Florence Archaeological Museum, and dated to circa **400 BCE.**
The sculpture depicts the mythological **Chimera**, a hybrid animal consisting of a lion, with a goats head emerging from its back, and a tail in the form of a snake.
The bronze was unearthed in **1553** and claimed for the Medici collections in Florence.
On the right foreleg of the lion is an inscription, implying that the sculpture served a votive purpose in antiquity.
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