Agora Object: S 1144
Inventory Number:   S 1144
Section Number:   Ψ 858
Title:   Ornamental Mask
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Large mask, complete save minor chips.
The hair rises, antefix-like, high above the head in vertical spiral curves; eyes staring, mouth gaping. A large roughly-dressed boss at the back (to aid in attachment as architectural decoration?).
Pentelic marble.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Well, ca. container 21.
Handling:   localized sugary surface
Negatives:   Leica, XVIII-13
Dimensions:   H. 0.46; W. 0.30
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   17 April 1939
Section:   Ψ
Grid:   Ψ:18/Η
Elevation:   -18.00m.
Masl:   -18m.
Deposit:   N 17.1
    N 17:1.2
Bibliography:   BICS Suppl. 14 (1962), p. 38, no. AS 28.
    Webster (1956a), no. A 24, pp. 55, 175.
    Pickard-Cambridge (1953), p. 189, fig. 67.
    Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 292, fig. 35.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 9 (1940)
Report: 1939 Ψ
Report Page: 1939 Ψ, s. 2
Images (8)
Deposit: N 17:1
Deposit: N 17:1.2
Notebook: Ψ-6
Notebook Pages (6)
Card: S 1144