Agora Object: S 1222
Inventory Number:   S 1222
Section Number:   Η' 886
Title:   Lion's Head
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken at left; smooth worn back with large shallow cutting and battered underside of jaw uncertain, may be original; face much battered, upper jaw entirely missing.
Head of Lion, facing front, with wide open jaw, and halo short curls; right ear, and inner corners of eyes preserved.
Smooth finished slightly curved surface at right and top; the down curve at the back of this surface is beginning to straighten out near break at left, i.e. the body continues on this side.
Streaks of black stain across the face, and across breaks, probably from acid stain (bothros) rather than fire; note similar stain in adjacent fill; no certain traces of red on hair.
In scale, and possibly workmanship, corresponds closely to the poros pediments on the Acropolis, particularly with the preserved parts of the lion and steer group, of which both heads are missing.
Yellow poros.
(Cf. Heberdey (1919), Altattische Porosskulptur, p. 91, fig. 70; a plaster cast of the break has been tried with the fragments now on exhibit and no direct join found.)
Notes:   Ca. 0.70m. below preserved top of Peribolos Wall
Context:   Lying face down in gravel fill ca. 1.60m. west of S.W. corner of Peribolos of 12 Gods, ca. 0.70m below preserved top of Peribolos Wall.
Negatives:   Leica, XXVI-69, XXXII-81, XXXII-82, XXXII-83, 83-95, 83-96, 83-97, color slide, XXVII-83e, XXVII-81, XXVII-82
Dimensions:   P.H. ca. 0.55; P.W. ca. 0.53; Th. 0.42; D. (curved surface at lower right) 0.22, (curved surface at top left) 0.32
Chronology:   Ca. 570-550 B.C.
Date:   6 August 1946
Section:   Η'
Grid:   K 6
Elevation:   Ca. -0.70m.
Masl:   -.7m.
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 100.
    Hesperia 82 (2013), p. 616, n. 2.
    Guide (1976), p. 300.
    Guide (1962), p. 191.
    Hesperia 16 (1947), p. 207, pls. 43.2, 45.1.
    Agora XI, no. 94, pp. 31-33, pl. 14.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Heberdey (1919), p. 91, fig. 70.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 50, p. 31
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (16)
Notebook: Η'-11
Notebook: Η'-12
Notebook Page: Η'-11-68 (pp. 2081-2082)
Notebook Page: Η'-12-53 (pp. 2249-2250)
Card: S 1222
Card: S 1222