Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
For display in new Girton College Museum, in the Lawrence Room.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Old exhibition label in archive
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Fragments of a pedestal. The pedestal when whole depicts tail of calf and left feet of the lion. Pieces are of oolite, from a group representing an Attis, with a lion over a ?calf.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Stone sculpture fragments from a rubbish pit. Excavated on 23 September 1881 by Francis Jenkinson, see excavation notebook (GO3/5/1).
Event Date 23/9/1881
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Pieces of sculptured stone (oolite), from a group representing an Attis, with a lion over a ?calf:
A: Head of lion.
B: Pedestal with tail of calf and left feet of the lion (6 fragments).
C: Part of tail and body of calf (7 fragments).
D: The left leg of the lion (5 fragments)
Event Date 1924
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Hollingworth, E.J. and M.M. O'Reilly. 1925. The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Girton College. p. 35-36, pl. 9.
Event Date 1925
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Green, M. 1976. The Religions of Civilian Roman Britaion. BAR 24, Oxford. p. 210.
Event Date 1976
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
(Bib): Liversidge, J. 1977. 'Roman Burials in the Cambridge Area' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. LXVII (67), p. 19 pl. 6 a, b and 7.
Event Date 1977
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Victoria County History: Cambridgeshire, vol. ii. 1978. pp, 67, 87, pl. VIII C.
Event Date 1978
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani: Great Britain. 1985. Vol. I Fascicule 5. p. 23, in no. 29 and note 5.
Event Date 1985
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Huskinson, J. 1994. Roman Sculpture from Eastern England. (Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. Great Britain vol. 1, fascicule 8) Oxford, Oxford University Press. pp. 31-32, no. 66, pl. 23.
Event Date 1994
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Analysis)
Huskinson believes this is probably part of a funerary monument, but makes no mention of the male figure (D 1924.63) as part of this group so the original Description (implying they are part of the same group monument) should be treated as speculative.
Event Date 1994
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Toynbee, J.M.C. 1964. Art in Britain Under the Romans. London. p. 113-114, note 1.
Event Date 4/12/2013
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson