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Support for Bench, Low Table, or Sarcophagus: Skin of Nemean Lion
Support for Bench, Low Table, or Sarcophagus: Skin of Nemean Lion

Support for Bench, Low Table, or Sarcophagus: Skin of Nemean Lion

probably 2nd century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueStone, Italian marble, somewhat like limestone
Dimensions21.8 cm (8 9/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Accession number1997.268
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceThought to have come from the vicinity of Rome; by 1977: with The Summa Galleries Inc., 342 North Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California (catalogue 3, December 1977, no. 2); November 1977: purchased from The Summa Galleries Inc. by Emily T. Vermeule; December 1977: gift of Emily T. Vermeule to Cornelius C. Vermeule; gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III to MFA, December 1997