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Lid with lion head, overview. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lid with Lion Head
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 178
- Date
- Late 2nd or early 3rd C. AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S67.024
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture, Sarcophagus
- Sculpture Type
- Sarcophagus
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W272 / S326 *87
- Findspot
- PN
- Description
- The sarcophagus lid fragment has a tile, triangular in section, which ends in a lion’s head. The mane of the lion is indicated by shallow grooves and incisions. His forehead has folds of skin incised on the diagonal. The protruding tongue and lower lip are preserved. The molding at the border of the lid is plain except for two horizontal bands near the top.
- Condition
Marble.
Four fragments, mended. The lower part of the nose and upper lip of lion broken off.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.095; H. with ridge 0.115; W. 0.52; L. 0.62; W. of ridge 0.137; W. of lion’s head 0.02; H. of revetment 0.12.
- Comments
- For the general type, cf. J.D. Young, Sarcophagus at Providence. Cf. also Wiegartz, Säulensarkophage, pl. 29a. For another lid, said to be from Sardis, see Cat. 260 (Figs. 448-449).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR