Agora Object: S 1045
Inventory Number:   S 1045
Section Number:   ΙΙ 437
Title:   Votive Relief Fragment
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Top and rough-picked back of relief slab preserved.
At right is the torso of a woman, Demeter, dressed in a chiton, facing; in her right hand she grasps the lower end of a torch, which she carries diagonally across her body. At the upper left corner of the field is the top of a scepter-like object. The crowning molding is chipped away.
Low relief; excellent work.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Valerian Wall, original fill north of Hypapanti gate.
Negatives:   Leica, 8-121, LXXVIII-40, 84-12-9
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.372; P.W. 0.205; Th. 0.06
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   13 May 1938
Section:   ΙΙ
Grid:   T 21
Bibliography:   Baumer (1997), pp. 27, 44, nn. 135, 251.
    Neumann (1979), pl. 34 a.
    Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 210.
    Agora XXXI, p. 217, no. 1, pl. 36.
    Agora XXXVIII, no. 44, p. 52, pl. 12.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXI
Publication: Agora XXXVIII
Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939)
Publication Page: Agora 31, s. 240, p. 217
Publication Page: Agora 31, s. 296
Images (6)
Card: S 1045
Card: S 1045