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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