Broken at left; smooth worn back with large shallow cutting and battered underside of jaw uncertain, may be original; face much battered, upper jaw entirely missing.
Head of Lion, facing front, with wide ... Ca. 570-550 B.C ... Broken at left; smooth worn back with large shallow cutting and battered underside of jaw uncertain, may be original; face much battered, upper jaw entirely missing.
Head of Lion, facing front, with wide open jaw, and halo short curls; right ear, and inner corners of eyes preserved.
... In scale, and possibly workmanship, corresponds closely to the poros pediments on the Acropolis, particularly with the preserved parts of the lion and steer group, of which both heads are missing.
Yellow poros.
(Cf. Heberdey (1919), Altattische Porosskulptur, p. 91, fig. 70; a plaster cast of the break has been tried with the fragments now on exhibit and no direct join found.)
