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[Agora Publication] Portrait Sculpture

Harrison, E. B ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Presented in catalogue form are 64 portrait heads, headless torsos, and fragments (of both categories) ranging in date from the first half of the 1st century B.C. to the 5th century A.D. The catalogue ... 1953

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[Agora Object] S 347: Portrait Head of Male Figure

The nose and chin have been considerably damaged. At the base of the neck, a roughly picked tongue indicates that the head was inserted into a separate body. Head, larger than life-size, perhaps of Trajan ... Flavian period.

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[Agora Object] S 359: Female Portrait Head Fragment

Chopped off behind and much battered, the features nearly gone. The high coiffure is Flavian, with rows of snail-shell curls in an erection over the forehead, drill holes in the center of each curl. Round ... Flavian period.