Agora Object: S 2070
Inventory Number:   S 2070
Section Number:   ΠΑ 258
Title:   Draped Colossal Figure Fragments
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Two fragments of a colossal draped female figure.
a) The lower part, wearing long closed peplos; cloak at back; looped folds of overfall preserved on left side. Weight rests on right leg; left relaxed forward. Feet broken away. Much battered, a bit burned and covered with lime.
b) Upper part of torso. Back broken away entirely; traces on front of curve of peplos. Oval cutting at top for head; square cutting on left side for arm.
Fine work. Apparently a cult statue.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Lying on a bit of Wall J, under Byzantine Wall V.
Notebook Page:   1033-1034
Negatives:   Leica, 82-210, 82-211, 82-212
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 1.60, b) 1.00
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   28 May 1959
Section:   ΠΑ
Grid:   Q 16
Bibliography:   Hesperia 88 (2019), p. 694, n. 150.
    Baumer (1997), no. G 13, pp. 49 ff., 52, 53, 54, 109, n. 329, pl. 19.1-4.
    Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 339, 341 (noted), 371-373, pl. 81 c.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 29 (1960)
Publication: Hesperia 88 (2019)
Drawing: PD 2481 (DA 559)
Drawing: PD 2481 (DA 560)
Images (9)
Card: S 2070