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Lion

    • Provenienza:
      Pompeii, House I 2, 2 (House of D. Octavius Quartio)
    • Data:
      First half of the 1st century AD
    • Materiali:
      Marble
    • Dimensioni:
      height 22 cm, width 27.9 cm
    • Collocazione:
      Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei
    • Inventario:
      inv. 2922
  • Lion

This statuette depicts a lion devouring an antelope. The small composition was placed in the garden on the south edge of a water channel (euripus), opposite a similar group of a lion seizing a prey.