Protome
48-2-291
From: Turkey (Country) | Konya
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 48-2-291 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Roman |
Provenience | Turkey (Country) | Konya |
Locus | ruins of Iconium, several feet beneath the surface of a garden |
Period | Roman Period |
Date Made | 0-199 CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Bronze |
Iconography | Lion |
Description | Forepart of lion emerging from a hollow tube whose lower termination is in the form of a calyx. Part of left foot missing. Traces of gilding in jaws and in a few places in mane. Upper end of tube raggedly broken. Patina is grey green. Heavy incrustations of limy substance, inside of tube. |
Length | 22 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948 |
Other Number | 87 - Collector Number | L-2-193 - Old Loan Number |
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