Object discovered by Romain Robert during excavation of the Magdalenian layers of the La Vache Cave at Alliat (Ariège). This blade, which made from bone, is finely engraved. The first fragment shows a frieze of a line of three running lions. Only the head of the first has survived, and we have only the hindquarters of the second. However, the third lion is intact. The hindquarters of the first animal can be seen on the second.

A cast of this object is displayed in the Palaeolithic Gallery of the National Archaeology Museum - Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Length = 13.1 cm; Width = 3.5 cm; Thickness = 0.3 cm. Length = 4.1 cm; Width = 2.8 cm; Thickness = 0.2 cm. MAN83347; MAN83643-I-21