Agora Object: S 1538
Inventory Number:   S 1538
Section Number:   Ρ 644
Title:   Head of Female Figure from Relief
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken below at neck; upper left part of head, including eye, broken away; nose broken away; right eye, chin and lips much battered.
Head in high relief, turned almost full left; veil over back of head. The head appears to be tilted slightly toward and to its proper left.
Fillet passes behind right ear, the lobe of which is pierced for earring.
Altar of Ares series.
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   0.10m. below level of top of second course of Altar of Ares foundations
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Very late (5th-6th c. A.D.) Roman fill, 0.10m. below level of top of second course of Altar of Ares foundations.
Negatives:   Leica, XLIX-72, XLIX-100, LIII-59, 81-15-35, 81-15-36, 97-19-1, 97-19-2
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.132; P.W. 0.098; P.Th. 0.108
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   14 June 1951
Section:   Ρ
Grid:   Ρ:27/ΛΖ
Elevation:   Ca. -0.10m.
Masl:   -.1m.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 88 (2019), no. 9, p. 647, fig. 32.
    Delivorrias (1974), n. 620.
    Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 94, n. 19, pl. 23 a.
    Agora XIV, p. 164, pl. 82 a.
References:   Publication: Agora XIV
Publication: Hesperia 21 (1952)
Publication: Hesperia 88 (2019)
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 1538
Card: S 1538