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| 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 ... Ca. 500-490 B.C. (?) ... 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. ... 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.
... Fragments of archaic poros geison were found with the lion group, see A 2706 (Ο 1099). |
| Broken at left; smooth worn back with large shallow cutting and battered underside of jaw uncertain, may be original; face much battered, upper jaw entirely missing.
Head of Lion, facing front, with wide ... Ca. 570-550 B.C ... Broken at left; smooth worn back with large shallow cutting and battered underside of jaw uncertain, may be original; face much battered, upper jaw entirely missing.
Head of Lion, facing front, with wide open jaw, and halo short curls; right ear, and inner corners of eyes preserved.
... In scale, and possibly workmanship, corresponds closely to the poros pediments on the Acropolis, particularly with the preserved parts of the lion and steer group, of which both heads are missing.
Yellow poros.
(Cf. Heberdey (1919), Altattische Porosskulptur, p. 91, fig. 70; a plaster cast of the break has been tried with the fragments now on exhibit and no direct join found.) |
| Wall fragment of a large open vase: bell krater? Good black glaze inside. Draped seated figure, left; staff (or part of furniture) at right. At side of figure, head of beast with heavy ruff (lion).
Surface ... 5 July 1949 ... At side of figure, head of beast with heavy ruff (lion).
... Brownish earth with poros chips over clay floor. |
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