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| Inventory Number: | S 1736 | |
| Section Number: | Τ 2593 | |
| Title: | Grave Stele Fragment | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Upper part of shaft of an Attic gravestone, broken at bottom, front reworked with coarser pick. Top edge broken away in back diagonally from corner to dowel hole in top. Reused as threshold block. Two pivot holes on back face. Back, top and sides weathered and cracked, front shows brown stains and has mortar adhering. Remains of the sculptured panel begin ca. 0.76m. below top of shaft. Outline of man's head, bearded, facing right. All surface of head chopped away. Some of concave background preserved, showing drove marks and red paint behind head, slighter traces of red paint near face. In the top of the stele a dowel hole for attachment of crowning member. Sides, back and top of front (preserved surface at upper edge) dressed smooth. Fine grained white Attic marble. | |
| Context: | Found early in 1952 at a high level south of Church of Apostles. | |
| Negatives: | Leica,LXIX-57, LXIX-58, LXVIII-78 | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 1.04; Th. (at top) 0.127; P.Th. (at bottom) 0.11; W. (at top) 0.355, (at bottom) 0.40, (dowel hole) 0.03; L. (dowel hole) 0.09; D. (dowel hole) 0.051 | |
| Chronology: | 3rd quarter of 6th c. B.C. | |
| Date: | July 1953 | |
| Section: | Τ | |
| Grid: | O 16 | |
| Period: | Archaic | |
| Bibliography: | Richter (1961), no. 50, p. 35, fig. 135. | |
| Hesperia 25 (1956), p. 27, D. | ||
| Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 295, n. 15. | ||
| Agora XI, no. 103, pp. 45-46, pl. 20. | ||
| References: | Publication: Agora XI Publication: Hesperia 24 (1955) Publication: Hesperia 25 (1956) Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 64, p. 45 Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177 Images (7) Card: S 1736 Card: S 1736 |
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