Lion-griffin horned vase 3D model preview
View source Save
0 downloads 6 likes 3,316 views Paid price

About this 3D model

THis vase, in the shape of a drinking horn (rhyton) ending with the head and the pawns of a lion-griffin, was used as a fountain decoration, the waterflowed from a hole between the animal's front paws. on th erim of the horn was a frieze with Maenads. THe work reproduces, on a smaller scale, the vase signed by the Greek artist Pontios preserved in the Capitoline Museums and derived from the metal prototype. End of the 1st century BC.