Agora Object: S 2079
Inventory Number:   S 2079
Section Number:   ΠΑ 293
Title:   Relief
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Reins of horse, man's right hand and arm, missing. Non-joining fragment of horse's leg.
Archaistic relief. Bearded man with long hair, carrying chlamys on right arm and spear. Moves right leading pair of horses whose heads are in high relief. Very broad borders.
Unfinished; four measuring points preserved.
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   Cast in Room 37. Non joining fragments in Study Collections-Case No. 19-11.
Frag. a previously in Upper Colonnade-South End.
Context:   Found with S 2076, lying directly under Base I.
Negatives:   Leica, 82-230, 83-265, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.52, (border at top) 0.095, (border at bottom) ca. 0.10; W. 0.663; Th. ca. 0.09, (of ground) 0.045
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   Roman period.
Date:   9 June 1959
Section:   ΠΑ
Grid:   R 16
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Hesperia 82 (2013), p. 619, n. 8.
    Guide (1976), p. 287.
    AJA 67 (1963), pp. 346-348, pl. 79, figs. 50-51.
    Guide (1962), p. 197.
    Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 379-381, pl. 84 c.
    Agora XI, no. 127, pp. 77-79, pl. 29.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication: Hesperia 29 (1960)
Publication: Hesperia 82 (2013)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 96, p. 77
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
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Card: S 2079