Agora Object: S 938
Inventory Number:   S 938
Section Number:   Β 1826
Title:   Portrait Head of Male Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Bearded male head broken off at root of neck; nose and eyebrows chipped, left ear lobe broken off. The brows furrowed, the beard and hair freely drilled. The hair at back of head merely blocked out. Surface of marble fresh and white, little weathered. Antonine style.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. IV (1940), p. 101.
Drilled for setting on base June 1950.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Well in floor of cistern west of Tholos.
Negatives:   Leica, 7-271, 7-272, XLIII-36, XLIII-37, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.31; W. 0.215; Th. ca. 0.25
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   Antonine period.
Date:   27 May 1937
Section:   Β
Grid:   G 11
Elevation:   -8.85 to -10.80m.
Masl:   -10.8--8.85m.
Deposit:   G 11:2.2
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 85-86.
    Guide (1976), p. 295.
    Guide (1962), pp. 193-194.
    Agora I, no. 30, p. 42, pl. 20.
Published Type:   Hesperia Suppl. IV (1940), p. 101.
References:   Publication: Agora I
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 56, p. 42
Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 121, p. 107
Images (13)
Deposit: G 11:2
Deposit: G 11:2.2
Notebook: Β-12
Notebook: Β-13
Notebook Pages (4)
Card: S 938