Agora Object: S 1449
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