Agora Object: S 1518
Inventory Number:   S 1518
Section Number:   Ρ 617
Title:   Herm Head Fragment
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken all around. Bearded head, the crown and a little of left cheek and eye preserved.
Narrow, lightly carved strands, which meet at a point on top and pass under a fillet and emerge as snail shell curls around the brow, indicate hair. The start of the beard is preserved.
Probably a Hermes, archaizing style (?); one quarter life-size.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Disturbed Byzantine fill.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   Max. Dim. 0.099
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   23 May 1951
Section:   Ρ
Grid:   Ρ:39/ΛΣΤ
Bibliography:   Agora XI, no. 173, p. 152, pl. 48.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 171, p. 152
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Image: 2010.19.0130 (Leica S 1518)
Card: S 1518