Agora Object: S 1246
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