Agora Object: S 1260
Inventory Number:   S 1260
Section Number:   ΟΟ 172
Title:   Head of a Cock
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Comb and beak chipped. At neckline, a somewhat rough-finished surface at obtuse angel with head, and a small hole for attachment, suggesting that the head was part of a group, and faced somewhat left. Note that the right side of the head, particularly the wattles, is unfinished.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. Herakles, S 1295 (ΠΠ 188).
Cf. also S 1258 (ΟΟ 170), S 1259 (ΟΟ 171): Asklepios connections?
Context:   Probably kalikia fill at south side of section.
Negatives:   Leica, XXIX-25, XXIX-92
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.093; P.W. 0.094; Th. 0.048
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   500-480 B.C (?).
Date:   April 1947
Section:   ΟΟ
Grid:   C-D 17-18
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 174-175, pl. 50. 2-3.
    Agora XI, no. 97 B, pp. 40-41, pl. 18.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:S 1258
    Agora:Object:S 1259
    Agora:Object:S 1295
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 59, p. 40
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (5)
Notebook: ΟΟ-4
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-4-9 (pp. 608-609)
Card: S 1260