Handle in the Form of a Man Holding Lions

second half 6th century BCE (Archaic)

11.6 cm 15 cm 9.1 cm

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This handle in the form of a nude male athlete was part of a metal "oinochoe," or jug, with a trefoil mouth, many of which were manufactured in the Peloponnese, renowned for its metallurgists. A nude male is holding the tails of two lionesses, which were attached on the lip of...

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Carmichael Sale, London, 1926, no. 330; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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माध्यम
bronze
विधा
Metal handles

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