Agora Object: S 2056
Inventory Number:   S 2056
Section Number:   ΕΛ 159
Title:   Portrait Herm
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Complete but unfinished.
Life-sized herm with portrait head of a man with short curly hair and himation falling over left shoulder.
Measuring points on chin and hair. Arm sockets not yet cut.
Chisel and drill work only, no rasp. Eyes plain.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Built into late Roman wall north of great north retaining wall of Eleusinion.
Negatives:   Leica, 81-586, 81-588, 81-613, 81-614, 82-364, 82-365, 87-488, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 1.70, (without tenon) 1.58; W. 0.33; Th. 0.26
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   15 June 1959
Section:   ΕΛ
Grid:   T 18
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 87, 91.
    Guide (1976), p. 294.
    Guide (1962), p. 194.
    AgoraPicBk 5 (1960), fig. 30.
    Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 370-371, 389-390, n. 7, pl. 86 d, e.
    Agora XI, p. 140.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 206, p. 187
Images (21)
Card: S 2056