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<< Our Photo Pages >> Piraeus Lion - Carving in Italy in Veneto

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Multi-periodSite Name: Piraeus Lion
Country: Italy
NOTE: This site is 1.916 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Veneto Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Venetia  Nearest Village: Venetia
Latitude: 45.434786N  Longitude: 12.349819E
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Piraeus Lion submitted by Flickr : There is a replica of the piraeus lion in historiska museet, stockholm, where the runes are coloured. after i saw that copy, of course i wanted to see the real statue. the runes are graffity from vikings who went to greece (actually, quite many went to greece, at least, that's what swedish rune stones tell us). on this site, a typical viking age serpent with a body of runes can be seen. on the oth... (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Piraeus Lion is an Ancient Greek lion statue at the Arsenal, Veniceone of four lion statues displayed as a symbol of Venice's patron saint, Saint Mark. It was originally located in Piraeus, the harbour of Athens.

It was looted by Venetian naval commander Francesco Morosini in 1687 as plunder taken in the Great Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire, during which the Venetians besieged Athens and Morosini's cannons caused damage to the Parthenon only matched by his subsequent looting. Copies of the statue can also be seen at the Piraeus Archaeological Museum and the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm.

The lion was a famous landmark in Piraeus, having stood there since the 1st or 2nd century AD. Its prominence was such that the port was given the name Porto Leone ("Lion Port") by the Italians, who had long forgotten the port's original name. It is depicted in a sitting pose, with a hollow throat and the mark of a pipe (now lost) running down its back; this suggests that it was originally used as a fountain. This is consistent with the description of the statue from the 1670s, which said that water flowed from the lion's mouth into a cistern at its feet.

The statue, which is made of white marble and stands some 3 m (9 ft.) high, is particularly noteworthy for having been defaced some time in the second half of the 11th century by Scandinavians who carved two lengthy runic inscriptions into the shoulders and flanks of the lion. The runes are carved in the shape of an elaborate lindworm dragon-headed scroll, in much the same style as on runestones in Scandinavia. The carvers of the runes were almost certainly Varangians, Scandinavian mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Emperor.

The inscriptions were not recognised as runes until the Swedish diplomat Johan David Åkerblad identified them at the end of the 18th century. They are in the shape of a lindworm (a flightless dragon with serpentine body and two or no legs) and were first translated in the mid-19th century by Carl Christian Rafn, the Secretary of the Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab (Royal Society of Nordic Antiquaries). The inscriptions are heavily eroded due to weathering and air pollution, making many of the individual runes barely legible. This has required translators to reconstruct some of the runes, filling in the blanks to determine what words they represented.

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Piraeus Lion submitted by Flickr : Piraeus Lion outside the Arsenale Image copyright: Peter Owen (Peter Owen), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piraeus Lion submitted by ilsignorstano : Piraeus Lion - General view (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piraeus Lion submitted by ilsignorstano : Piraeus Lion VIII Runes (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piraeus Lion submitted by ilsignorstano : Piraeus Lion I 11th century Scandinavians carved two lengthy runic inscriptions into the shoulders and flanks of the lion. The runes are carved in the shape of an elaborate lindworm dragon-headed scroll, in much the same style as on runestones in Scandinavia. The carvers of the runes were almost certainly Varangians, Scandinavian mercenaries in the service of the Byzantine Emperor.

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