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Lion's Head Waterspout in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Lion's Head Waterspout in the Getty Villa, July 2008
Lion's Head Waterspout
Greek, made in Taras, South Italy, 425-400 BC
Terracotta and pigment
Sima

This waterspout is still attached to a small piece of a sima, a roof element that functioned as a gutter. The style of decorative palmettes and upside-down lotus blossoms is typical of art from Taras, a Greek colony in Southern Italy.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

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