Limestone footstool, Classical, 1st half of the 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 7 7/8 × 28 7/16 in. (20 × 72.2 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, The relief shows a chimera, a mythical creature composed of a lion, a she-goat, and a snake. It was customary to represent the goat as a protome emerging from the lion's back. Here she faces in the same direction as the lion and has one foreleg raised
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Limestone footstool, Classical, 1st half, 5th century B.C, Cypriot, Limestone, Overall, 7 7/8, 28 7/16, 20, 72.2 cm, Cesnola Inscriptions, relief, chimera, mythical creature, composed, lion, goat, snake, customary, represent, protome emerging, back, faces, direction, foreleg raised
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