Agora Object: S 1459
Inventory Number:   S 1459
Section Number:   Ρ 543
Title:   Head of Male Figure from Relief
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Right half of forehead and cheek missing; broken at neck, and small broken surface at back of head, probably marking break from relief ground.
Male head, about half life-size, with short beard and drooping mustache, in high relief with head in three-quarters view turned to the right.
Note that the neck is finished in the round; three grooves on lower part of back to separate it from background. Left side of head rough finished; now battered but apparently left ear never carved.
Much weathered.
From the Altar of Ares Series.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 94.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   On north wall of altar foundation; black fill in hole where second course is missing.
Notebook Page:   1821
Negatives:   Leica, XLV-16, XLV-17, LIII-59, 85-427, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.14; P.W. 0.096; Th. ca. 0.11
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   17 June 1950
Section:   Ρ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 91 (2022), p. 100, fig. 12b.
    Hesperia 88 (2019), no. 1, pp. 628, 639-640, figs. 3, 22.
    AJA 81 (1977), p. 173, fig. 38.
    Delivorrias (1974), pp. 51, 144, nn. 581, 620.
    Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 57, pl. 29 b, c.
    FA 5 (1950), fig. 18, (1600).
    ILN (11 November 1950), p. 766, fig. 2.
    Agora XIV, p. 164, pl. 82 c.
Published Type:   Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 94.
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 19, p. xviii
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 261, p. 236
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 364
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Card: S 1459
Card: S 1459