Agora Object: S 1942
Inventory Number:   S 1942
Section Number:   ΠΠ 992
Title:   Head Fragment of Lioness or Lion
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Part of the mouth and nose have been broken off as has the left ear.
The neck is sufficiently preserved to show that the head is turning left. The roughly chiseled back may be original and the head perhaps part of a whole body in relief.
Position of right ear shown by a shallow hole. Holes in upper jaw for insertion of fangs. Two holes either side of lower jaw for insertion of teeth. Jowls on either side of mouth droop and are indicated by grooves. Area of mane slightly in relief, but smooth, was perhaps painted.
Very little muscular detail or modeling except for eye orbits.
Island marble.
Context:   First strosis of South House, Room 14 B (late Roman fill).
Notebook Page:   2392
Negatives:   Leica, 80-666, 80-667
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.223; P.W. 0.17
Material:   Marble (Island)
Chronology:   500-450 B.C. (?).
Date:   27 April 1956
Section:   ΠΠ
Grid:   B 16
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   Agora XI, no. 92, pp. 29-30, pl. 13.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 48, p. 29
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (5)
Notebook: ΠΠ-12
Notebook: ΠΠ-13
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-12-101 (pp. 2391-2392)
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-13-10 (pp. 2407-2408)
Card: S 1942
Card: S 1942