CIMRM 481 - Upper-layer: South wall painting (contd.). The procession of the <i>Lions</i>. Santa Prisca. Rome, Italy.

CIMRM 481 - Upper-layer: South wall painting (contd.). The procession of the Lions. Santa Prisca. Rome, Italy.

Overview: all the upper-level paintings.

Ferrua plate 1. Right wall contd.

The procession of the six Lions. From here.

Monochrome picture of the six lions.

Figure 3.

Figure 4.

Figure 5.

From Flickr. By spelluza.

From here.

Note that the figures are numbered from the left.

CIMRM entry

481.
The procession is continued on the part between the door e and the niche h (Ferrua, Pl. I; see fig. 134). One sees six young men, walking behind each other (Leones), in short hair and beards, dressed in a girded, ochreous tunic, the sleeves of which are decorated with purple stripes. They all carry offerings.
1) Only few traces.
2) Youth with white bull.
3) Youth with in his hands a cock (see fig. 135). Above him a dipinto:
N[a]ma ........ Leon[i].
4) Stooping man pushing a large ram (see fig. 136). Above: [N]ama.
5) Youth carries a krater in both hands (see fig. 137). Above him the dipinto:
Nama Niceforo Leoni.
6) Stooping youth drives a pig before him. Above him:
a) Nama / Theodoro Leoni.
b) Nama ...... Leoni.

CIMRM 481 - Upper-layer: South wall painting (contd.). The procession of the Lions. Santa Prisca. Rome, Italy.