Agora Object: PNT 117
Inventory Number:   PNT 117
Title:   Crouching Negro
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Πήλινο ειδώλιο οκλάζοντος νέγρου Πρώιμος 4ος αι. π.Χ.
Description:   Complete save for the right knee and foot.
A tiny figure with negroid features sleeps hunched up; his shoulders thrust down between the knees, his clasped hands again the left cheek. The exaggerated membrum virile is stretched out on the low plinth between the feet.
Clay: Buff, fine. Traces of red pain on the flesh. Completely modeled behind.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Πήλινο ειδώλιο οκλάζοντος νέγρου.
Context:   Assembly Place, filling of Period III, from close behind the great wall.
Negatives:   81-394
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.044
Chronology:   Early fourth century B.C.
Date:   29 May 1931
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 7 (1943), no. 87, p. 152, fig. 65.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 7 (1943)
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Card: PNT 117
Card: PNT 117