Agora Object: S 440
Inventory Number:   S 440
Section Number:   Β 272
Title:   Draped Female Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Missing: the head, the right arm from above the elbow, the left hand, the left foot (doweled on) and parts of the drapery.
The figure is seen walking swiftly forward, the left leg advanced, the drapery blown back around it. She wears a thin undergarment, with sleeves gathered by buttons, and over this a chiton of heavier material, highly girded, and with an overfold. A small shawl covers her left shoulder, passes round her back and crosses in front to fall over her bent arm. The preserved right foot wears a sandal. The left foot, which was separately attached, projected out over the plinth.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Found lying face down, built into the lowest part of the corner of a late wall in the foundation trench of the Tholos.
Negatives:   Leica, LXXVIII-11, 4-122, 4-123, 4-124 ,4-125, 4-126, 4-153, 4-155, 4-237, 4-349, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. (over all) 1.12; H. (plinth) ca. 0.06; W. (at shoulders) 0.335
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   13 March 1934
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:13-14/ΙΑ-ΙΒ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 90 (2021), p. 587, n. 110.
    Hesperia 86 (2017), pp. 292-294, no. 3, figs. 17-19, 21.
    Museum Guide (2014), p. 77.
    Guide (1976), p. 288.
    Guide (1962), p. 196.
    ILN (2 June 1934).
References:   Publication: Hesperia 86 (2017)
Publication: Hesperia 90 (2021)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Images (35)
Notebook: Β-2
Notebook Page: Β-2-53 (pp. 295-296)
Notebook Page: Β-2-54 (pp. 297-298)
Notebook Page: Β-2-59 (pp. 307-308)
Card: S 440