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Votive
Head of a
Ht.
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photographs (1955/110).
This monument is now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, having been purchased from an antiquities dealer in 1969. In their publication of the monument, Mango and Ševčenko describe it as a ‘marble water spout in the shape of a lion’s head’; however, Ballance was certain that the stone had been bored for re-use as a spout at a later date.
The fourth letter of line 2 appears to be an