Agora Object: S 2438
Inventory Number:   S 2438
Section Number:   Ω 1927
Title:   Statue of Herakles
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Complete except for left hand, right forearm and hand, upper part of club and chips from feet, genitals and nose.
Statue of very youthful Herakles. Weight on left leg, right leg forward, and slightly bent; left arm bent at elbow with lion skin draped over forearm and tree trunk support, right arm away from body, hand resting on club. Head turned somewhat to the right, hair bound with thin fillet. Somewhat rough behind.
White and blue-gray marble, the white veins apparently harder to carve.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   2956
Negatives:   Leica, 86-756, 86-757, 86-758, 86-759, 86-760, 87-474, 88-420, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 1.25, (of figure) 1.19; W. (at shoulders) 0.33; Th. (at chest) 0.19
Date:   22 July 1971
Section:   Ω
Grid:   Q 21
Elevation:   Ca. -12.70m.
Masl:   -12.7m.
Deposit:   Q 21:4
Lot:   Lot Ω 529
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 94-95.
    Camp (1986), p. 208.
    OJA 3 (1984), pp. 114-116, figs. 7, 8.
    Guide (1976), p. 298.
    Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 172, n. 121, pl. 38 b.
    Agora XXIV, pp. 41, 46, pl. 39 b.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIV
Publication: Hesperia 42 (1973)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 19, p. xvi
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 65, p. 41
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 219
Report: 1971 Ω
Report Page: 1971 Ω, s. 11
Images (18)
Deposit: Q 21:4
Lot: Ω 529
Notebook: Ω-15
Notebook: Ω-16
Notebook Page: Ω-15-82 (pp. 2955-2956)
Notebook Page: Ω-15-83 (pp. 2957-2958)
Notebook Page: Ω-16-70 (pp. 3130-3131)
Card: S 2438