προτομή, ἡ,
(προτέμνω) front part cut off: especially,
__1 head and face of a decapitated animal (rarely of a decapitated man, [[ LXX.2Mac.15.35, and of a boar with human head, Pseudo-Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fluv.” 21.4), γλαύκου 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 132.4; γρυπός “IG” 12.280.15; λέοντος ] LXX+4th c.BC+]“Inscription Deélos” 442[[ B 108 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐλάφου [[ “OGI” 214.41 (Didyma, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; λύκου [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.18; λεόντων, ταύρων, δρακόντων, [prev. work] 62 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; Κερβέρου[[ [prev. work] 96; Γοργόνος 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 20; χηνίσκων 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 49.4.28 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of a dolphin as figurehead, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 7.215 (4th-3rd c.BC: Anyte Epigrammatica)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. ἵππου, name of the asterism Eculeus, [[ 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 3.8, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 7.5. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 cup in shape of animal's face, [[ 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 5, “IG” 11(2).287 B 34, 134 (Delos, 3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3 bust, [[[prev. work]14.1518] Refs]; αἱ π. τοῦ Καίσαρος the imagines or busts of the Emperor on the Roman standards, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 18.3.1, compare “IG” 22.1108.6, “Ostr.” 178 (2nd c.AD), +others] Refs 1st c.AD+]; π. τῆς ἀρχῆς [[ 6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 3.21. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]