προτομή

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 IG 12.280.15; λέοντος Inscr.Deélos 442 B 108 (ii B.C.); ἐλάφου OGI 214.41 (Didyma, iii B.C.); λύκου D.S. 1.18; λεόντων, ταύρων, δρακόντων, ib.62; Κερβέρου ib.96; Γοργόνος Corn. ND 20; χηνίσκων Orib. 49.4.28; of a dolphin as figurehead, AP 7.215 (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).287 B 34, 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. AJ 18.3.1, cf. IG 22.1108.6, Ostr. 178 (ii A.D.), al.; π. τῆς ἀρχῆς Lyd. Mag. 3.21.