Agora Object: S 1972
Inventory Number:   S 1972
Section Number:   Ο 1080
Title:   Relief Fragment with Lion and Bull from Pediment
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Two groups of joining fragments and three non-joining belonging to the right half of a small pediment in high relief representing a lion attacking a bull. Presumably the other half contained another lion symmetrically placed.
a) Four joining fragments. Preserves bottom, back (on lowest fragment only), left edge and part of sloping upper edge. Slope cannot be precisely determined because erosion of break surface between the two top fragment makes join wobbly. Shows head of lion biting rump of bull and two paws grasping it. Bull's legs broken away. Traces of bright blue paint on bull's body.
b) Three joining fragments preserve bottom and back of slab and part of lion's tail.
c) Fragment preserving bottom and back of slab and part of curved form.
d) Fragment with part of lion's body; back preserved but eroded.
e) Fragment with mane-locks; position on lion uncertain.
Soft white poros.
(Unidentified poros fragments found with the above are stored on shelves behind Stoa of Attalos, July 1963.)
Context:   Built into walls of Byzantine vaulted chamber. Fragments of archaic poros geison were found with the lion group, see A 2706 (Ο 1099).
Notebook Page:   949, 976
Negatives:   Leica, 81-19, 81-20, 82-399, 83-77, 83-78, 83-79
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.79, b) 0.40, c) 0.295, d) ca. 0.30; P.W. a) 0.365, b) 0.48, c) ca. 0.31, d) ca. 0.30; Th. d) 0.26; Max. Dim. e) 0.213
Chronology:   Ca. 500-490 B.C. (?)
Date:   31 July 1956
Section:   Ο
Grid:   Ο:94/ΚΕ
Deposit:   O 11:1
Bibliography:   Hesperia 82 (2013), p. 616, n. 2.
    Hesperia 27 (1958), pp. 153-154, pl. 43 c.
    Agora XI, no. 95, pp. 33-36, pls. 15-16.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication: Hesperia 27 (1958)
Publication: Hesperia 82 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 52, p. 33
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (24)
Deposit: O 11:1
Card: S 1972
Card: S 1972