Archaic Marker I
Grave's marker in the shape of a lion excavated in the area of the "Sacred Gate" at Kerameikos in Athens. After Athens’ sack in the second Persian war, the sculpture was incorporated inside the walls of the Sacred Gate erected by Themistocles. In 2002, German archaeologists discovered, in the same area, this artworks with other archaic sculptures, a sphinx and a kouros, the so-called "Sacred Gate Kouros”, today exhibited inside the Kerameikos Museum.
Archaic Greek sculpture
590 and 580 BC
Athens, Keramikos, Museum
Archaic Marker I
Grave's marker in the shape of a lion excavated in the area of the "Sacred Gate" at Kerameikos in Athens. After Athens’ sack in the second Persian war, the sculpture was incorporated inside the walls of the Sacred Gate erected by Themistocles. In 2002, German archaeologists discovered, in the same area, this artworks with other archaic sculptures, a sphinx and a kouros, the so-called "Sacred Gate Kouros”, today exhibited inside the Kerameikos Museum.
Archaic Greek sculpture
590 and 580 BC
Athens, Keramikos, Museum