Agora Object: A 3621
Inventory Number:   A 3621
Section Number:   Τ 3986
Title:   Sima Section with Lion's Head Spout
Category:   Architecture Terracotta
Description:   Full height and width preserved, full length undeterminable. The lion lacks most of its lower jaw and the right ear. A painted face of acanthus alternating with palmettes; below, a border of maeander. Traces of red, yellow and black. A lion's head for decoration, with no hole for water to pass through; the hair done with tongues of clay with incised lines. Traces of yellow black and brown paint. A red strip on the underside where it would have been exposed. Clamp holes at either end of the top. Coarse pinkish buff clay.
Context:   South Stoa I, Room 3. Above bottom floor which lies at the level of the euthynteria.
Notebook Page:   7233
Negatives:   Leica, 85-470, 85-471
Dimensions:   H. ca. 0.12; W. 0.385; P.L. 0.19
Material:   Terracotta
Date:   7 July 1967
Section:   Τ
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 21 (1984), fig. 42.
References:   Publication: AgoraPicBk 21 (1984)
Image: 2012.57.1122 (85-470)
Image: 2012.57.1123 (85-471)
Card: A 3621
Card: A 3621