Inventory Number: | S 1246 | |
Section Number: | ΟΟ 122 | |
Title: | Head of Female Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Broken at neck and at back of hair; most of forehead, nose, mouth and chin battered and missing. At the back, a bit of the original surface preserved at the top of the neck suggests a freestanding statue and not a relief. Woman's head, less than half life-size, the hair bound in a sakkos with a double fold across the top. Careful work. Pentelic marble. Drilled and set with bronze dowel cemented with plaster 1956. ADDENDA Originally attributed to the Nike Parapet but probably to be assigned to the Temple of Ares, cf. S 191, probably from the same series. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Late Roman with Byzantine disturbance. | |
Negatives: | Leica, XXVII-69, XXVII-70, XL-11, 85-361, 85-362, 85-363, color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.152; W. 0.10; Th. 0.135 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Date: | 20 May 1947 | |
Section: | ΟΟ | |
Grid: | ΟΟ:83/ΛΘ | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 91 (2022), p. 100, fig. 12a. | |
Hesperia 90 (2021), p. 562, n. 65. | ||
Hesperia 88 (2019), no. 20, pp. 623, figs. 14, 43. | ||
Delivorrias (1974), p. 145, n. 620. | ||
Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 176, n. 38, pl. 52. | ||
BCH 71-72 (1947-1948), pl. 67. | ||
Agora XI, p. 40. | ||
Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:S 191 | |
References: | Publications (5) Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 206, p. 187 Images (25) Notebook: ΟΟ-2 Notebook: ΟΟ-3 Notebook Page: ΟΟ-2-78 (pp. 347-348) Notebook Page: ΟΟ-2-79 (pp. 349-350) Notebook Page: ΟΟ-3-50 (pp. 490-491) Card: S 1246 Card: S 1246 |