R2 Cat. 215

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Late 2nd or early 3rd C. AD (Roman)

A captive barbarian is tied with his back against a pillar. His arms are bent at the elbows and bound behind his back. He wears a tunic girt below his chest with a broad belt. His cloak, fastened at the r. shoulder, falls in an arc across the front o...

R2 Cat. 216

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

The open smiling mouth is pierced by a round hole for the spout. His teeth are shown as a single horizontal band. The nose was broad. Wide open eyes have arched upper lids and single large drilled holes for the pupils. Furrows between eyebrows and on...

R2 Cat. 218

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st or 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The griffin pillar consists of a head and winged neck growing out of an acanthus plant. This in turn curves into a lion’s foot below. The griffin head has pointed ears and an open roaring mouth with tongue hanging out. His great curving chest and nec...

R2 Cat. 219

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st or 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The griffin pillar is nearly identical to its twin Cat. 218 (Fig. 383) found nearby. The four-clawed foot is better preserved here and shows the same powerful curves typical of the whole piece.

R2 Cat. 220

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Mid-2nd to early 3rd C. AD (Roman)

A roaring lion’s head, heavily maned and with tongue hanging out, is atop a great curving chest which in turn grows from a lion’s foot. Behind the chest, on each side, is a flat inward-curving spiral and a rough, unfinished blank area. At the back is...

R2 Cat. 221

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd or 3rd C. AD (Roman)

A lion’s leg and paw, sweeping forward at the top into a great bulge, rests on a plinth, and is capped at the top by a flat surface to support a throne or couch. The plinth has a hole in the underside. The claws are powerfully carved, with deep groov...

R2 Cat. 222

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

A lion head is carved on a pillar under a projecting squared capital. The lion has small beady eyes and a simple mane done in parallel locks. A channel runs through his mouth, but because of the pillar behind, this was apparently not originally a fou...

R2 Cat. 223

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. AD (Roman)

Young Dionysus leans on a pillar with l. arm, his hand cupped over the top of the pillar molding. Weight is on his r. leg, the l. one crosses it in front and rests on the ball of the foot. His back is against a second, taller pillar with stepped-out ...

R2 Cat. 224

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. AD (Roman)

Although the entire head is missing, a strand of hair is preserved on each shoulder. A piece of drapery is wrapped around the left arm at the elbow. The r. hand probably held a staff, since the bottom of some such object is preserved on the base, and...

R2 Cat. 225

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st half of 3rd C. AD? (Roman)

A nude standing male figure, leaning against a pillar, has a piece of drapery slung across his l. shoulder, around back, and across his r. thigh. Weight is on the l. leg, his r. leg forward. His l. hand clasps the drapery near his chest, the r. hand ...

R2 Cat. 226

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st half of 4th C. AD? (Roman)

This was originally a seven-branched candlestick with a central vertical stem. Each branch, oval in section, has an incised lozenge pattern (L. 0.05, W. 0.022), carefully but monotonously cut. This pattern is to suggest stylized leaves of rhomboid sh...

R2 Cat. 227

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st or 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The chest is profiled at the top and bottom of the wall and stands on four squat legs. The front imitates a wooden chest with metal trimmings. A rectangular lock plate is flanked by two spreading palmettes growing out of an acanthus calyx, all in low...

R2 Cat. 228

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Date uncertain (Roman)

A chest of solid stone has at its top a slightly raised platform, in which a round hollow has been cut, and also a channel to the back of the stone. This may have been for the insertion of a statue in the top. The front of the chest has in the center...

R2 Cat. 261

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

early 6th C. BC (Lydian)

The archaic smooth-maned, recumbent lion is facing straight ahead. The head is large and round. The flanks and lower legs are nearly straight and vertical. The ruff and low mane are barely rising over the forehead; there is no trace of a back mane. T...

R2 Cat. 262

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. BC (Hellenistic)

The stele is rectangular with a tenon at the bottom for insertion into another block. Represented on the relief panel are a standing man and woman, three children, and a servant, and in the center background a flat pillar which probably carried an ep...

R2 Cat. 264

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

228 AD (Roman)

Set within a slight rectangular depression and standing on a narrow ledge is a standing woman, identified as Trophime in the inscription. In a frontal position, she raises her r. hand in prayer; the l. is at her side. She wears a chiton and a himatio...

R2 Cat. 265

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

4th C. AD? (Roman)

In a narrowly recessed rectangular panel stand two soldiers in military dress, their r. hands raised in folds, and they wear a triangular-shaped over-fold with incised parallel V-folds. They also wear boots. The two figures are frontal; there is no e...

R2 Cat. 266

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Date unascertainable (Roman)

The unfinished standing frontal male holds his r. arm, bent upwards at the elbow, away from his body. The l. arm is not clear but the vertical, undulating band along the l. side may be a club (therefore, figure thought to be Herakles). The head and h...

R2 Cat. 267

Sculpture

Limestone, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

A horizontal diadem is worn across the top of the forehead. The hair is long and wavy, with ivy and grape bunches, crudely modeled, and with occasional drill holes. At the back the hair is flat. The inner corners of the eyes and pupils are drilled. T...

R2 Cat. 268

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd-3rd C. AD (Roman)

The figure appears to have been moving toward r. with r. arm raised, left lowered and probably held against her stomach, where there is a prominent break. A lock of hair lies on her l. shoulder, falling over the graceful wide neckline of the high-gir...

R2 Cat. 25B

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

450-350 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

In the following description, the pair which now bears Manisa museum no. 4031 (S63.037A) will be designated as lions A and B, that with no. 4030 (S63.037B) as C and D. In the view of 4031 which shows the lions’ tails (Fig. 92) lion A is on the left, ...

R2 Cat. 8

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

530-520 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The statue stood with the I. leg slightly forward of the r., both arms down the sides. The figure wears a chiton with delicate wavy folds, half-length sleeves with long seams, and a wide semi-circular border with two edges around the neck. The cloak,...

R2 Cat. 17

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

520-500 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The stele was set at the bottom into a base. The back, which was probably not seen, is extremely roughly trimmed. The sides are finished with multiple claw chisel. The lower part of the front preserves the scattered stroke patterns of claw chisel and...

R2 Cat. 34

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

550-530 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The recumbent lioness is roaring. A collar mane frames her face below the ears. The very linear, triangular, incised locks are lancet-like on the mane, leaf-like on the chest. The tail is slung over the r. hindquarter. Large hind paws with toes are i...

R2 Cat. 35

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 540 BC (Late Lydian (Persian))

The outline of the lion's foreleg is linear as is the rendering of the hair, with incised laurel-leaf-shaped locks for the chest mane. The tail goes under and around the l. haunch, as in Cat. 31 (Fig. 119). There is a fold of flesh at the hock of the...