• r2-37-10
    Lion's paw, right profile view. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

    Aslan pençesi

    Dönem
    Late 6th or 5th C. BC, Lidya
    Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
    NoEx63.001
    Malzeme
    Mermer, Taş
    Eserin Türü
    Heykel
    Heykelin Türü
    Hayvan, Aslan
    Yerleşim
    Sardis
    Bulunduğu Yeri
    Field of Halil Keskin, S of UT; no other objects found with it.
    Tanım
    The piece has an interesting stylization of the upper parts of the lion’s claws as a flat band and a similarly ornamental flat band at the back of the leg. The paw is well modeled with high rounded forms of toes. No rough drill was used. It is not a table leg of the usual kind but perhaps from a marble footstool for an image, as on the relief of Assurbanipal II (Kyrieleis, pl.1). The piece is late archaic or 5th C. B.C.
    Condition

    Large-grained “local” marble, reddish discoloration

    Fragment of larger sculpture, broken off at top. A circular hole in back, probably secondary, for a dowel; original dowel hole in bottom.

    Boyutlar
    H. 0.15; L. 0.17; W. 0.14. Hole in back: diam. 0.015; D. 0.055.
    Yorum
    Comparisons for footstools: Kyrieleis, Throne und Klinen, 13f., pl. 1 (other Assyrian furniture with lion feet also discussed), pl. 9:1, Achaemenian, p. 181ff., “Möbel mit Tierfüssen.” Cf. also feet of throne, theater of Dionysus, Athens, Richter, Furniture of the Greeks, fig. 139-140, first half 3rd C. B.C.
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