Resource Identifier:
R001757

Resource Type:
Marble

Description:
This anthropomorphic figure with a tiger head, translucent and finely carved, is the finest example of marble sculpture from Anyang. With head slightly tilted upwards, mouth agape and teeth bared, the figure crouches, claw-like hands placed on its knees. The sculpture is covered with incised decorations that include dragons with bottle-horns on its arms, and vertical dragons with curved tails from its thighs to hip. Its underside is divided in two, and a vertical groove runs along its back, possibly for attaching it as an architectural ornament.

Format:
Height 37.1、Length 21.4、Diameter 26.8cm，Weight 28.5kg

Coverage:
Fill of looters’ pit, Xibeigang Tomb No. 1001

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

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