Agora Object: T 434
Inventory Number:   T 434
Section Number:   Ζ 467
Title:   Head of Telesphoros Figurine
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   Broken away behind and at neck.
The hair falls in curls on either side, with a centrally parted lock over the middle of the forehead that resembles a herringbone pattern. The eyes are pierced, and the mouth has been gashed after glazing, so that the effect of the whole is very strange.
Dark red glaze inside and out, and especially dark on the right side of the face.
Pinkish buff clay.
Probably from a plastic lamp.
Context:   Great Drain, gravel fill.
Negatives:   Leica, LXIV-78
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.04; P.W. 0.039; P.Th. 0.03
Date:   26 April 1933
Section:   Ζ
Grid:   Ζ:49/ΚΑ
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Agora VI, p. 75, no. 956.
References:   Publication: Agora VI
Publication Page: Agora 6, s. 104, p. 92
Image: 2012.54.0078 (LXIV-78)
Notebook: Ζ-4
Notebook: Ζ-7
Notebook Page: Ζ-4-33 (pp. 643-644)
Notebook Page: Ζ-7-68 (pp. 1295-1296)
Notebook Page: Ζ-7-73 (pp. 1305-1306)
Card: T 434