- προτομή
- προτομή, ἡ, ([etym.] προτέμνω)A front part cut off: esp.,1 head and face of a decapitated animal (rarely of a decapitated man, LXX 2 Ma. 15.35, and of a boar with human head, Ps.-Plu.Fluv.21.4),
γλαύκου Antiph.132.4
;γρυπός IG12.280.15
;λέοντος
Inscr.Deélos442
B 108 (ii B.C.);ἐλάφου OGI214.41
(Didyma, iii B.C.);λύκου D.S.1.18
; λεόντων, ταύρων, δρακόντων, ib.62; Κερβέρου ib.96;Γοργόνος Corn. ND20
;χηνίσκων Orib.49.4.28
; of a dolphin as figurehead, AP7.215 (Anyt.); π. ἵππου, name of the asterism Eculeus, Gem.3.8, Ptol.Alm.7.5.2 cup in shape of animal's face, Philox.5, IG 11(2).287B34, 134 (Delos, iii B.C.).3 bust, ib.14.1518; αἱ π. τοῦ Καίσαρος the imagines or busts of the Emperor on the Roman standards, J.AJ18.3.1, cf. IG22.1108.6, Ostr.178 (ii A.D.), al.;π. τῆς ἀρχῆς Lyd.Mag.3.21
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