Object: A 700
Inventory Number: A 700
Section Number: Δ 312
Title: Lion's Head Spout
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Nose and mouth missing and tips of ears. Full thickness of sima preserved at back. Mane rendered on two rows of rather flat stylized tufts except over forehead where there is a third row of small tufts now badly worn.
Assigned to either the Temple of Ares or the Temple of Hephaistos.
Pentelic marble.
Context: Cistern, northern chamber; in black mud of Byzantine fill.
Notebook Page: 416
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 16/6
Negatives: Leica, XX-93
Dimensions: H. 0.288; W. 0.211; Th. (sima without spout) 0.078
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 18 April 1932
Section: Δ
Grid: Δ:3/ΣΤ
Longitude: 23.721994
Latitude: 37.974436
Building: Temple of Ares
 Temple of Hephaistos
Deposit: G 14:3
Bibliography: AJA 80 (1976), pp. 232-237.
 Travlos (1971), fig. 345.
 Hesperia 28 (1959), p. 27.
 Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 113.
 Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 3, n. 9, pp. 33, 35, 36, figs. 12, 13.
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