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There are 58 objects for which Decoration contains → skin
2002.9.4 A reconstruction of a barbiton comprised of a heart shaped wooden frame with a horizontal bar at the top to which the seven strings are attached. The strings are arranged vertically and are attached at the bottom where there is a tortoise shell with some sort of drum skin drawn taught across the top. A red ribbon has been added for decoration to the left at the bottom.
2007.1.10.20 Hercules holding a lion skin with captured Cerberus in tow
2007.1.10.25 Possibly Hercules holding the skin of the Nemean Lion with Cupid hovering at his back
2007.1.10.26 Possibly Hercules holding the skin of the Nemean Lion with Cupid hovering at his back
2007.1.10.28 Possibly Hercules holding the skin of Nemean Lion with club and cupid on his shoulder
2007.1.10.29 Possibly Hercules kneeling holding the skin of the Nemean Lion with Cupid on his shoulder
2007.1.10.31 Possibly Hercules holding a dagger sitting on a lion skin, and possibly cupid on the left
2007.1.10.32 Possibly Hercules holding a dagger sitting on lion skin, to the left of him there are some letters in Greek, possibly a mini sphinx by his left foot
2007.1.10.33 Possibly Hercules sitting on a lion skin and holding a dagger
2007.1.10.36 Naked man holding a staff sitting on a lion skin with a baby on his lap, both looking at a deer by a tree
2007.1.10.37 Naked man holding a staff sitting on a lion skin with a baby on his lap holding a branch facing a deer
2007.1.10.39 Naked man sitting on lion skin seducing a naked woman standing in front of him
2007.1.10.42 A man sitting on the ground with a woman sitting behind him rubbing his back, cupid in the air to the left of him, lion skin in front of man
2007.1.10.45 Portrait of head and shoulders of man with lion skin on his head and around his shoulders
2007.1.10.46 Portrait in profile facing left of man with lion's skin on his head.
2007.1.10.47 Portrait in profile of man facing right, with lion's skin on his head
2007.1.10.48 Exceptionally raised portrait of man facing slightly towards the right, with lion's skin on his head
2007.1.10.49 Portrait of profile of man facing to the right, with lion's skin on his head. (Possibly Hercules).
2007.1.10.50 Portrait in profile of man facing right, with lion's skin on his head
2007.1.10.52 Portrait in profile of man facing to the right, slightly raised, with lion's skin on his head.
2007.1.10.54 Portrait in profile of man facing right, with lion's skin on his head.
2007.1.10.55 Portrait in profile of man facing left, with lion's skin on his head.
2007.1.10.56 Portrait in profile of man facing right, with lion's skin on his head.
2007.1.10.57 Portrait in profile of man facing right, with lion's skin on his head.
2007.1.10.58 Portrait in profile of man facing right, with lion's skin on his head
2007.1.10.59 Portrait in profile of man facing right, baring his arms, his left hand is holding part of the loin's skin draped from his head. His right hand is holding a club.
2007.1.10.60 Portrait of man from waist up, facing left. Lion's skin is draped over his right shoulder, as well as a club.
2007.1.10.61 Full body portrait of woman facing right. Partly clothed, carrying a lion's skin and a club.
2007.1.10.62 Full body portrait of a woman facing right. Partly clothed, carrying a lion's skin and a club.
2007.10.2.245 A bearded, muscular, and semi-naked seated figure. His clothing is possibly an animal skin (paws seem to be apparent). He appears to be resting as his right arm rests on his knee and his right hand supports his bowed head. He is also holding an unidentified object in his right hand which also rests against his leg. His other hand appears to be holding a further (unidentified) object which rests across his lap. A club rests against his left thigh in the foreground of the scene. There is either a bull or cow depicted by the figure's right leg at the bottom-left of the scene. The figure shown is almost certainly Herakles, possibly resting after one his labours (herding the cattle of Geryon?).
2007.10.2.304 A male figure wearing a skin (possibly a lion skin) struggles with a bull. The bull's head is lowered perhaps indicating that it is charging. Behind the bull, to the right of the cast, there is what appears to be a statue (possibly of female form) with two faces in profile, one facing left and the other right. The animal skin (if it is lion) perhaps identifies the male as Herakles. The scene might be a representation of one of Herakles tasks (yoking of the bulls).
2007.10.2.359 A centaur wearing a lion's skin, balancing a big pot on his shoulders. In his left hand he is holding a staff.
2007.10.2.48 Profile portrait of Hercules with lion skin on head facing right
2007.10.2.49 Profile portrait of Hercules with lion skin facing left
2007.10.2.82 Naked male figured dancing with a spear. A vase lies at his feet and it looks like there is an animal skin draped over his arm.
2007.9.1.12 Displaying a running centaur wearing a lion skin cloak, facing right.
2007.9.3.151 Male head in profile facing left. He looks to have a lion's skin on his head. Possibly Hercules.
2007.9.3.5 Displays a naked man, carrying a spear and a lion skin.
2008.2.1.27 Male head in profile facing right. Looks to have a lions skin on his head, so possibly Hercules.
2008.2.1.58 A male figure standing on one leg, possibly dancing. His arms are outstretched, over his right arm there is an animal skin and in his left hand he is holding an elaborate staff. His head is thrown back against his left shoulder.
2009.10.2.285 Depicts Hercules standing to his right. He is naked and carrying the skin of a lion, there is a club to the right of the image. Number - 1
2009.10.2.286 Depicts Hercules naked standing to the right, with a lions skin draped over him and a club to his right. Number - 2
2009.10.2.296 Image depicts front view of Hercules facing slightly to the left, he is wearing lion skin around his neck. Number - 11
2009.10.2.309 Scene showing Herakles sitting on the skin of the nemean lion and holding it's head. His club stands nearby.
2009.10.2.310 A scene showing Herakles facing left. In his right hand he carries his club and the head of the nemean lion. The lion's skin is draped over his back
2009.10.2.311 Herakles is depicted facing left. With his right hand he rests his club upon his shoulder whilst with his left he holds the skin the nemean lion.
2009.10.2.334 A scene depicting Herkales carrying the skin of the Nemean lion.
2009.10.2.401 Bearded male centaur carrying an ornate staff over his left shoulder and a lion skin and basket on his right shoulder. There is a faint inscription below the figure. Number 57
26.2.64 Exterior creamy ground white with a pattern of nearly parallel brown curves that get increasingly shorter, creating a pie slice shape (perhaps the folds of skin on the neck of a bull, fracing right), along with part of a lower eyelid. Interior black with a red line alone one edge. Right above the red line is a white line. There are also a few other splotches of white, probably white outline of lotus flower (or two) with a red centre.
42.9.1 The rim (stephane) is decorated with a double horizontal bulleted strap. The neck of side A has a broad band ornamented with elleipsoid lines with lotus leaf-shaped endings. Body: Side A: Dionysos holding leafless vine branch and kantharos between 2 dancing maenads, one of whom wears a spotted skin over her drapery. The scene is surrounded (left and right) by vertical, bulleted zones in the form of antae that seem to support a horizontal band with tongues over the heads of the figures, making the scene look as if under a building. B: 3 youths (but with beards?) wrapped in himatia, with a pair of halteres hanging between the second and third youths, relief contour on A none on B, outline of hair (and beards?) reserved. The same decoration surrounds the 3.
47.6.2A-B Lid: Straight sides and a moulded rim at the top and bottom, both red. The plastic ring at the top of the lid black. The top is decorated with a depiction of a male figure, perhaps Dionysus (Ure) or Pan (Boardman) with horns springing from his head. He wears an animal skin (brownish dots) over his shoulders, with a hoof dangling. He seems to be stepping or sitting on another animal skin. In raised left hand he holds an indeterminate instrument (Ure: handleless fork; Boardman: syrinx) and he rests his right hand, brought before his body, on an oar-shaped object (trumpet; Ure: winnowing fan; Boardman: 'lagobolon'). To his left is the forepart of a pig (or dog?), and to his right, a basket with three corn stalks. There is also a red, thin line at the joining point of the plastic ring and the lid. The decoration of the side surface of the lid is a motif of vertical, hanging, wavy tongues, between reddish brown bands. There is also one inverted heart-shaped motif at some point between the tongues. Body: There is a red line at the rim and another one at half the way up the body, both on the inside and the outside. On the interior there are two, concentric, reddish-brown circles. Exterior: There is also a red line at the bottom of the body, while the disk-shaped ring is reddish-brown. Wide rim at base. Underside is reserved and central section flat.
51.7.11 The interior and rim are black, except for two reserved bands on the interior, at the top and bottom of the lip. Just under the rim is a laurel wreath, facing to the right. A palmette fills the space beneath each black handle; a series of dots mark each handle zone. The scene on each side is bordered by two tendrils that emerge from the ground, in most cases flanked by two smaller tendrils; at the centre of each large tendril is a volute, from which spring two demi-palmettes. Side A: Wreathed, draped Apollo stands in 3/4-view to the right, holding a laurel branch in his right hand and a phiale and fillet in his upraised left hand. He faces a white-haired, bearded Papposilen, who stands in profile to the left. The Papposilen wears a taenia on his head, an animal skin (nebris) over a shaggy-white body suit, and slippers. He holds a mirror in his upraised left hand and a lyre and a fillet in his lowered left hand. Above him is bust of a goddess, probably Hera (or Leto, or Cyllene?), with her face in profile to the right, enclosed within a window, outlined in white. She wears a high crown and jewellry and holds a sceptre in front of her left shoulder. There are ivy leaves in the field. Side B: Two standing, draped youths, facing each other and wearing wreaths. The left figure has a 'V' drape on his chest and his left hand is barely visible; the right hand of the right figure emerges from his himation; he holds a branch out to his companion. Beneath the scenes is a band of right-facing waves. The lower body and foot are black, except for a reserved band on a groove at the top of the vertical surface of the foot, and the reserved underside.
56.8.4 Black inside and out except for an egg-and-dot band framed by two black lines at the front of the base of the neck, the figural design, and the reserved underside. Body: A satyr seated between two similar palmettes (the left one larger; each is comprised of a flower in the middle of two volutes framed by a short half-heart-shaped pattern on either side). The satyr is seated in 3/4-view to the left on a rocky mass that is spotted (perhaps it is covered with an animal skin). He looks profile to the left and he wears a taenia or band on his head, as well as a long, beaded necklace over his left shoulder and across his chest. He holds a phiale (its rim is marked with yellowish dots) in his left hand and a fillet in his right hand. The fillet is purple. The taenia, necklace, and rim of the phiale are coloured white with yellow wash. On the back a drip of (probably accidental) white paint.
E.23.3 Model of Nile boat, with six rowers with six oars and a steersman standing and steering with paddle. Another figure standing in front of steersman, by mast, and a final figure sitting behind the rowers. Figures are painted with brown pigment for skin, black pigment for hair. There is a faint red pigment on the 'deck', going from top to bottom and then several horizontal lines. It is unlikely that all of the figures are originally from this boat. The number 886 (988) is visable on the boat, which likely the tomb number.
E.63.3 Light green figurine of the dwarf god Bes, dancing in a lion's skin with a feather head-dress. There is a hole for threading on the back/base of the head-dress. Although the figure is dancing it appears quite somber.
E.63.4 Light green figurine, partner of Reading E.63.3. It is the dwarf god Bes, dancing in a lion's skin with feather head-dress. There is a hole to enable threading at base/back of the head-dress. The figure stands on a flat base.
L.2016.3.24 Obverse: Portrait of Alexandros III. to the right, wearing Heracles' lion skin exuvia Reverse: (From left to right) quiver, Greek inscription, Heracles' club, Greek inscription
REDMG:1951.149.1 Wide flared mouth. Black inside with two reserved bands either end of rim. Outer surface has a laurel band around rim. Handles, all black, at the base of the body extend upwards. Side A shows seated woman (skin painted white) and Eros next to her with a satyr seated and holding a thysseus and pointing on Eros' left. Tendrils above and plants in field. Side B shows a woman standing, draped, facing right, between two satyrs, one reaching to a box the other dancing with a box above him to the right. Egg and dot pattern below both scenes. Black to top of foot which has a reserved band at top and bottom of side. Base is concave and reserved.
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