Hellenistic marble fur or pelt fragment
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A marble fragment carved with animal fur, either from a figure of a goat/satyr or possibly from the lion pelt of a Herakles statue.
Culture
Hellenistic or early Roman, c. 1st Century BC
Size
14.2 x 8 cms
Condition
Fragment as seen in the photographs
Provenance
Ex. collection: Paul Gaudin (1858-1921), France; thence by family descent. Collected in Anatolia between 1899-1904. Paul Gaudin was an engineer and antiquary who became an archaeologist in the course of his work in Turkey and is credited with the discovery of Yortan, an important Bronze Age site closely associated with Troy. Antiquities excavated by Gaudin are to be found in several prominent collections including the Musee de Louvre and British Museum.
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