Identification Number: 03TR11U04stn08

Kerkenes Inventory ID:

Classification: Stone / Sculpture

Finding Type: Relief Sculpture

Item: Small-scale relief sculpture fragment

Material: Sandstone

Images

Photograph 05dpnk0212 by Murat Akar.Drawing by Carrie Van Horn.

Description

‘Sandstone relief sculpture fragment with two overlapping claw-like shapes with ends hooked in the opposite direction. Two other small flame-like appendages are shown in a row behind the hooked end of the outermost overlapping “claw” in a manner resembling a crest. The remains attached to the outer edge of this “claw”-like element could originally have extended to a flame-like tip.‘

Dimensions

Length: 38 mm. Width: 27 mm. Thickness: 8 mm.

Context

Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance. In rubble fill.

Publication

Draycott, Sculpture and Inscriptions, Chicago: OIP 2008.