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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