Krater handle in the form of lions

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ Χ 6648

Category

Vessel attachment

Period

Archaic Period

Date

6th cent. BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.1 m

Material

Bronze

Location

First Floor Case 18, Νο 5

Description
Bibliography

Vessel handle probably belonging to a krater. It consists of two heraldic lions standing on their hind legs and lifting their tails while turning their heads backwards. Muscle and mane details are incised while the bellies and tails are decorated with dots. The handle was adjusted on the vessel with bronze nails as a hole retaining part of a nail, on the handle’s lower part, indicate.

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Jacobsthal, P., Greek pins and their connections with Europe and Asia, Oxford, 1956, σελ. 79
Marangou, L., Lakonische Elfenbein and Beinschnitzereien, Tübingen, 1969, σελ. 65 υποσημ. 385, εικ. 52
Filow, B.D., Die Archaische Nekropole von Trebenischte am Ochrida See, Berlin, 1972, σελ. 15 υποσημ. 3
Wagner, C., Dedication Practices on the Athenian Acropolis, 8th to 4th centuries B.C, University of Oxford, 1997, σελ. 151