Inventory Number: | S 1449 | |
Section Number: | ΩΔ 447 | |
Title: | Relief Fragment with Male Figure and Lion | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Life-size. Broken behind. Fragment from the head of a man, facing left with the paw of a lion gripping him from behind and above. The outer part of the lion's paw was worked in a separate piece and attached by means of a cemented bronze dowel. The hair on the top of the man's head is rendered by stippling in red paint; around the edge a triple band of snail-shell curls; the nape of the neck bare. The paw and the claw of the lion worked with great delicacy. Pentelic marble, milky white, much laminated . | |
Context: | From marble pile between Odeion and "Giants". | |
Negatives: | Leica, XLV-25, XLV-26, 80-624 | |
Dimensions: | Max. Dim. 0.235; P.W. 0.20; P.H. 0.23; P.Th. 0.08 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | Ca. 530-520 B.C. | |
Date: | 5 May 1950 | |
Section: | ΩΔ | |
Grid: | L-M 9 | |
Period: | Archaic | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 20 (1951), pp. 59-60, pl. 30 d, e. | |
Agora XI, no. 96, pp. 96-97, pl. 17. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XI Publication: Hesperia 20 (1951) Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 55, p. 36 Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177 Images (8) Notebook: ΩΔ-5 Notebook Page: ΩΔ-5-8 (pp. 807-808) Card: S 1449 |