Collection: Athens, Acropolis Museum
Title: Head of a feline
Context: From Athens, Acropolis
Findspot: Found at Athens, Acropolis
Summary: Feline head
Material: Marble
Sculpture Type: Architectural
Category: Separated fragments
Placement: Frieze
Style: High Archaic
Technique: Medium relief
Original or Copy: Original
Date: ca. 575 BC - ca. 550 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.26 m; W. 0.28 m
Scale: Under life-size
Region: Attica
Period: High Archaic

Subject Description: Head of a feline, perhaps a lion or panther, shown in a frontal pose. The pupils of the eyes are decorated with incisions comprised of two concentric circles around a central dot.

Condition: Head only (nearly complete)

Condition Description: Only the head remains, broken off in a diagonal line across the neck. The ears are chipped, as are the left eye and small portions of the snout.

Material Description: Hymettian, according to Brouskari

Associated Building: Athens, Hekatompedon

Other Notes: This fragment perhaps comes from the same frieze as Athens, Acropolis 522/554.

Sources Used: Brouskari 1974, 31, fig. 21

Other Bibliography: Dinsmoor 1975, 71 ff.; Schuchhardt in Langlotz & Schrader 1939, 337 no. 462, pls. 182-83; Payne 1936, 11-12, 51-52, pl. 15.1-3; W.-H. Schuchhardt, AM 1935, 100 ff.