Agora Object: S 853
Inventory Number:   S 853
Section Number:   Υ 231
Title:   Statuette of Mother of the Gods
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   The head, which was doweled in, is missing.
Female figure wearing a chiton and himation seated in a high-backed throne, which has lions as front legs; the bodies of the lions are carved in relief against the sides of the throne. No tympanon or patera.
Fine working grooves over whole surface.
Island marble.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Well. Sculptor's dump, 3rd century A.D.
Notebook Page:   625
Negatives:   Leica, 7-178, 7-179, V-39, 96-75-21
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.197; W. 0.13; Th. 0.117
Material:   Marble (Island)
Date:   19 March 1937
Section:   Υ
Grid:   Υ:9/Ξ
Elevation:   -13.55--13.55m.
Masl:   -13.55m.
Deposit:   J 18:2
Bibliography:   Hesperia 90 (2021), no. 5, pp. 371-374, figs. 9, 17.
    Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 590, n. 144.
    Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 147, n. 9.
    AJA 41 (1937), p. 183, fig. 9.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 83 (2014)
Publication: Hesperia 87 (2018)
Publication: Hesperia 90 (2021)
Report: 1937 Υ
Report Page: 1937 Υ, s. 7
Images (13)
Deposit: J 18:2
Notebook: Υ-2
Notebook: Υ-4
Notebook Page: Υ-2-76 (pp. 342-343)
Notebook Page: Υ-4-18 (pp. 625-626)
Card: S 853