Inventory Number: | T 359 | |
Section Number: | Θ 247 | |
Title: | Relief | |
Category: | Terracotta | |
Description: | Giant hurling rock. First interpretation: youth figurine hurling rock. Fragmentary relief. Broken on bottom and right side. The left arm and legs of the giant missing. The top and back smooth but uneven; left side curved. At the right of the fragment, a nude giant, looking left, holding a large boulder in both hands over his head. Over his left shoulder, a bit of drapery. In the field behind him, to his right, part of a lion skin in low relief. At the left edge of the fragment, a deep curving depression. Fine style. Pinkish buff clay; rather coarse, with bits. A try piece for a mold for metal; perhaps for a cuirass (?). | |
Notes: | 0.90m. below the north wall | |
Context: | Middle Stoa Building. North of wall, 0.90m. below it. White earth. | |
Negatives: | Leica, XXIII-6 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.084; W. 0.072; Th. 0.031 | |
Date: | 1 March 1933 | |
Section: | Θ | |
Grid: | Θ:5/ΣΤ | |
Elevation: | Ca. -0.90m. | |
Masl: | -.9m. | |
Deposit: | H-K 12-14 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 65 (1996), p. 239, n. 14. | |
Hesperia 8 (1939), p. 296, fig. 9, n. 54. | ||
References: | Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939) Publication: Hesperia 65 (1996) Image: 2012.51.0234 (XVIII-6) Deposit: H-K 12-14 Card: T 359 |