About one discovery of a fragment of the entablature of the Ionian order in Kerch
Year: 2025

Several architectural details and sculptures dating back to the 2nd – 3rd centuries A.D. were found in Kerch in 1882. Among them, a part of the entablature of a temple or sanctuary of the Ionian order is of great interest. Its relief frieze depicts a man’s mask and plant shoots connected with it. Animal protomes (a dog, possibly a panther, a hare, again a dog) are represented in the center of these shoots. Their images grow out of plant shoots, creating a single composition. This composition has