Agora Object: S 1276
Inventory Number:   S 1276
Section Number:   Θ 1928
    Ε 626
Title:   Fragments of a) Grave Relief with Male Figure and Dog, b) Dog's Head in Relief, c) Kouros
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Three fragments:
a) Broken above and at right, perhaps also below. Left side smooth. Back badly pitted by cesspool acids, but probably nearly original. Preserved bottom similarly pitted; may or may not be nearly original.
Preserved is the right foot and part of the left, with the legs to the calves of a nude standing figure wearing sandals, rendered in medium high relief. Between the legs in low relief is a curving object. Faint traces of red on sandal straps.
Pentelic marble with some bluish veins.
b) The top of a dog's head preserved, from the ear to below the eyes; the head is turned up and rests against his master's hand, of which the left thumb, lying along the animal's jowl, remains.
Island marble.
c) Part of left thigh and buttocks of a Kouros.
Joins with S 287 (Θ 146). Part of the same statute as: S 530 ( Ο 294), S 1677 (Κ 1621), S 1739 (Η 817), S 1908 (Ζ 2086).
Notes:   Fragment c) has no Section number.
a) (Θ 1928) 2/ΙΘ
a) (Θ 1928) I 12
b) (Ε 626) I 11
c) I 11
Previously Upper Colonnade-North End.
Context:   a) (Θ 1928) North side of Turkish cesspool, in ancient fill at level of ancient strosis; back of relief towards cesspool.
b) (Ε 626) Found in marble dump east of S.E. corner of Eponymous Heroes.
c) Found in marble pile on west bank of Great Drain in front of Tholos.
Negatives:   Leica, XXIX-16, XXIX-97, XLIX-7, 99-22-36, 99-22-37, 99-23-1, 99-23-2, 99-23-3, 99-23-4, 99-23-5, LXIII-56, LXIII-57, LXVIII-75, color slide
PD Number:   PD 859
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.34, c) ca. 0.39; P.W. a) 0.30, c) ca. 0.20; P.Th. c) 0.18; Th. a) 0.22; P.L. b) 0.175
Material:   Marble
Chronology:   a) (Θ 1928) ca. 530-525 B.C., b) (Ε 626) last quarter of 6th c. B.C., c) ca. 600-590 B.C.
Date:   a) (Θ 1928) 2 July 1947
b) (Ε 626) 29 May 1951
c) 30 July 1951
Section:   Θ
    Ε
Grid:   Θ:2/ΙΘ
    I 12
    I 11
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 28 (2022), p. 18, fig. 18.
    AgoraPicBk 28.gr (2022), p. 18, fig. 18.
    JdI 115 (2000), p. 3, n. 1, p. 6, n. 6.
    Guide (1976), p. 299, (frag a).
    Guide (1962), p. 192, (frag a).
    Richter (1961), no. 49, pp. 34-35, figs. 131, 177, (frag. a).
    Richter (1961), no. 69, p. 48, fig. 168, (frag. b).
    Hesperia 25 (1956), p. 28, E, pl. 11 f, (frag a).
    Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 291, pls. 81 a, 83 b, (frag. c).
    Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 108, pl. 21 a, b, (frags. a) and b).
    Hesperia Suppl. 8 (1949), pp. 373-377, pl. 51.1, (frag. a).
    Agora XI, no. 104, pp. 46-47, pl. 21, (frag a).
    Agora XI, no. 105, pp. 47-48, pl. 21, (frag. b).
    Agora XI, no. 65 B, pp. 13-16, pl. 1, (frag. c).
References:   Publications (7)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 65, p. 46
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 66, p. 47
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (16)
Notebook: Ε-7
Notebook: Ζ-17
Notebook Page: Ε-7-36 (pp. 1230-1231)
Notebook Page: Ζ-17-15 (pp. 3149-3150)
Card: S 1276
Card: S 1276