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Lid with lion head, overview. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)
Aslan Başlı Kapak
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 178
- Dönem
- Late 2nd or early 3rd C. AD, Roma
- Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
- S67.024
- Malzeme
- Mermer, Taş
- Eserin Türü
- Heykel, Lahit
- Heykelin Türü
- Lahit
- Yerleşim
- Sardis
- Alan (Sektör)
- PN
- Açma
- PN
- Koordinatlar
- W272 / S326 *87
- Bulunduğu Yeri
- PN
- Tanım
- 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.
- Boyutlar
- 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.
- Yorum
- 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).
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