Identification Number: 03TR11U08stn08 and 03TR11U08stn30

Kerkenes Inventory ID: K03.168 and Yozgat Museum Registration Number 1579

Classification: Stone / Sculpture

Finding Type: Relief Sculpture

Item: Small-scale relief sculpture fragment

Material: Sandstone

Images

Photograph 06dpnk0205 by Murat Akar.Drawing by Carrie Van Horn.

Description

Two joining fragments showing part of a feline head. Found on 20 July 2003 and 23 July 2003 in the burnt collapse above the pavement in Trench 11 (unit 8). The fragment with the eye and ear (03TR11U08stn08) was the first to be found and was found about 2 or 3 m from the south section. The relief has broken off along the line of the relief around the mouth, muzzle, brow, and top of the ear, and through the relief from behind the ear to under the eye.

Dimensions

Length: 9.5 cm. Width: 3.5 cm maximum. \nLength of innermost part of the eye: 1.8 cm. \nEstimated height of lion head: 10 cm. \nEstimated height of animal, if on all fours: about 30 cm.

Context

Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance. In burned collapse above the pavement.

Publication

Draycott, Sculpture and Inscriptions, Chicago: OIP 2008.