Agora Object: S 1064
Inventory Number:   S 1064
Section Number:   ΟΑ 301
Title:   Head Fragment of Athena
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Preserved to base of neck. Back and upper part of head, including the left eye, broken away, nose missing, mouth battered.
Helmeted Athena, almost life-size, wearing a simple bead necklace; head turned slightly right. Long hair rendered by parallel wavy lines, hanging down below neckpiece of helmet, and loose curls escaping from helmet at forehead and side of face.
The left earring was set in with a dowel and there is part of a second dowel cutting preserved above.
Pentelic marble.
ADDENDA Three fragments from the Acropolis, now in the Acropolis Museum, have been identified by Mrs. Giannopoulou as coming from the same statue, but there is no join (EBH July 1967).
For the discovery of those fragments, see in correspondence file "Giannopoulos".
Context:   Gully south of Acropolis Street, lower fill (Roman).
Negatives:   Leica, 8-124, LXXV-18, LXXV-19, LXXV-20
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.021; P.W. 0.14; P.Th. 0.14
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   25 May 1938
Section:   ΟΑ
Grid:   T 24
Bibliography:   Hesperia 78 (2009), p. 487, fig. 5, n. 21.
    Agora XI, no. 124, pp. 73-75, pl. 26.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication: Hesperia 78 (2009)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 92, p. 73
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Images (13)
Card: S 1064
Card: S 1064