leograph

plural leographs

1. A stylized lion motif or icon mainly found in Sinospheric and Indospheric regions' architectures.

   The artists are forced endlessly to carve figures of elephants and leographs of chinthes.

   1998, Feroz Kapadia, South East Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Anmol publications, page 85

   2 more examples

   The deity on the animal is flanked by two figures and set against a frame displaying inter alia a leograph on each side.

   1982, Bratindra Nath Mukherjee, East Indian Art Styles: A Study in Parallel Trends, Humanities Press, page 25

   the character on the abdomen and on its right may be considered to be the leograph for pain in that part of the body.

   1893, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 589

2. An artistic representation of a lion

   Tuesday-Sa,hsa,za,zha,nya-3-Leograph(Lion).

   2005, Tin Mg Oo, Aspects of Myanmar Culture, Cho-Tay-Than Bookhouse, page 31