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    Griffin pillar, overview. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

Griffin Sütunu

Dönem
1st or 2nd C. AD, Roma
Müze
Manisa, Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Müzesi, 4086
Müze Envanter No.
4086
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
S59.022
Malzeme
Mermer, Taş
Eserin Türü
Heykel
Heykelin Türü
Alet veya Teçhizatı, Hayvan
Yerleşim
Sardis
Alan (Sektör)
HoB
Açma
HoB
Locus
HoB House of Bronzes Room 11A
Koordinatlar
E20 / S60 *99.63
Bulunduğu Yeri
HoB, standing on floor.
Tanım

The griffin pillar consists of a head and winged neck growing out of an acanthus plant. This in turn curves into a lion’s foot below. The griffin head has pointed ears and an open roaring mouth with tongue hanging out. His great curving chest and neck issue forth at the sides into short wings curving back towards the pillar. The leg is vividly and plastically modeled.

There is a circular shallow cutting (D. 0.01) in the top of the pillar. The pillar is flat on the back. There is no striking use of the drill, but rather careful chisel work and smoothing.

Condition

Marble. Yellowish surface, possibly local.

Part of top flat table support missing; left toe broken off. Heavily covered by brown discoloration.

Boyutlar
H. 0.785; W. at chest 0.14; D. at chest 0.265, at foot 0.255
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Kaynakça
For more heavily maned lions, see Richter, Furniture of the Greeks, fig. 577, dated to the later Imperial age (p. 112); Budde-Nicholls, Fitzwilliam Catalogue, no. 181, pl. 61. For the Greek prototype, see Richter, ibid., figs. 372-376.
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