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Recumbent lion, Manisa 318, left side. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Recumbent lion, Manisa 318, right side. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Recumbent lion, Manisa 318, front. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Marble Sculpture of a Recumbent Lion
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 35
- Date
- Ca. 540 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 318
- Museum Inventory No.
- 318
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 318
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Animal
- Site
- Sardis?
- Findspot
- "Salihli." As Salihli has no Lydian antiquities of its own, this provenance usually indicates Sardis or vicinity.
- Description
- The outline of the lion's foreleg is linear as is the rendering of the hair, with incised laurel-leaf-shaped locks for the chest mane. The tail goes under and around the l. haunch, as in Cat. 31 (Fig. 119). There is a fold of flesh at the hock of the r. hind leg. Because of the rather fluid curves in outlining the lower body and the greater sense of flesh in the forelegs, the piece is more developed than the altar lions (Cat. 27, Cat. 28, Cat. 29, Figs. 105-117). It is Lydo-Ionian, possibly from the same Sardian workshop as the altar lions. Gabelmann dates it to 540 B.C. by comparison with Corinthian lions.
- Condition
Gray marble.
Head lost; forelegs broken off; much worn and washed out.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.45; L. 0.80.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Gabelmann, Lowenbild, 84, 93, no. 131.
- Author
- GMAH