προτομή
προτομή, ἡ,(προτέμνω)
A). front part cut off: esp.,
1). head and face of a decapitated animal (rarely of a decapitated man, 2 Ma. 15.35 , and of a boar with human head, Ps.- Fluv. 21.4 ), γλαύκου ; 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 ; 1.18 λεόντων, ταύρων, δρακόντων, ib. 62 ; Κερβέρου ib. 96 ; Γοργόνος ND 20 ; χηνίσκων ; of a dolphin as figurehead, 49.4.28 AP 7.215 ( ); π. ἵππου, name of the asterism Eculeus, , 3.8 Alm. 7.5 .
3). bust, ib. 14.1518 ; αἱ π. τοῦ Καίσαρος the imagines or busts of the Emperor on the Roman standards, AJ 18.3.1 , cf. IG 22.1108.6 , Ostr. 178 (ii A.D.), al.; π. τῆς ἀρχῆς Mag. 3.21 .