Title: Lectern for the Reading of the Gospels with the Eagle of Saint John the Evangelist
Object type: Sculpture
Date: ca. 1301, with later additions
Culture: Italian
Artist:  Giovanni Pisano 
Artist bio: Italian, Pisa ca. 1240–1319 Siena
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 27 3/4 × 24 3/16 × 16 in., 205 lb. (70.5 × 61.5 × 40.6 cm, 93 kg)
Other (pin embedded in eagle): 2 15/16 × 1 1/16 in. (7.5 × 2.7 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Stone
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918
Geography: Made in Pistoia Tuscany  Italy      
Department: Medieval Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Eagles, term: Saint John the Evangelist