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Water spout in the shape of a lion's head

Classification
water spout
Culture
Magna Graecian
Dimensions
height: 14 cm
Date
3rd century B.C.
Period
Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)
Material
material analysis; Rhodian limestone
Iconography
lion
Findspot
Rhodes (island)
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)
Inventory
4793
ID
Hyp-3910
References
Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 90; Hekler 1929, 103, 106, no. 94

Material analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the water spout was made of Rhodian limestone. Click here for the detailed results.
 

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