Agora Object: S 1292
Inventory Number:   S 1292
Section Number:   ΝΝ 3495
Title:   Head of Female Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Small head, chips missing from the left side of the face, and the nose. Finished off smooth at the bottom of the neck. All much battered and stained with iron.
A roll of hair, or a wreath, around the face; the hair hangs down over the nape in neck.
Traces of red color near the top of the head.
Pentelic marble.
ADDENDA The figure, Athena, wears an Attic helmet; hair waved up and across it at rear. (AS 1997)
ADDENDA 2023: The iron pin (IL 2282) was set through the top of the head.
Cf. Hesperia 82 (2013), p. 635 (noted).
Context:   House H, Room 2; late Hellenistic fill under floor.
Notebook Page:   5878
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.065
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   2 August 1947
Section:   ΝΝ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 86 (2017), pp. 116, 117, figs. 1, 24.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 86 (2017)
Images (4)
Notebook: ΝΝ-29
Notebook: ΝΝ-30
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-29-29 (pp. 5648-5649)
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-30-44 (pp. 5878-5879)
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-30-85 (pp. 5960-5961)
Card: S 1292