In 1972 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a bronze griffin head that was “said to have been found in Olympia” (Bothmer), specifically in the river bed of the Kladeos near to the Gymnasium (inv. 1971.118.54). The find was recorded in Deltion for 1915.
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