Agora Object: S 558
Inventory Number:   S 558
Section Number:   Ο 590
Title:   Head of Male Figure with Backing Block
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   The features are entirely obliterated, and the surface, calcined, is preserved only in hollow between neck and face, and at top of head.
Head of a youth (?), about half life-size, full face, in high relief. Short close hair, bound by a fillet. The slab behind is preserved at top, back and right side. Two hook clamps in the top. The top of the head, in front of the slab, is cut down slightly.
Pentelic marble.
This piece closely resembles two heads from debris of the Burnt Building: S 553 (Ν 263), S 554 (Ν 264). Also cf. S 558 (Ο 590), S 597 (Ν'80), S 1213 (ΩΔ 218), S 1391 (ΣΑ 327).
Context:   Fill beside bottom of late wall, ca. 15m. east of Burnt Building.
Negatives:   Leica, XXXIII-56, XXXIII-57, XXXIII-58, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.24, (head proper) 0.175; W. 0.165; Th. 0.145, (slab) 0.045
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   17 April 1935
Section:   Ο
Grid:   Ο:80/ΛΒ
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 30, 40-41, fig. 21.
    Paterakis (1997), pp. 75-97.
    Hesperia 19 (1950), pl. 49 a, b.
    Agora XI, no. 221, p. 170, pl. 59.
    Agora XIV, pp. 111-114, pl. 60 d.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:S 597
    Agora:Object:S 1213
    Agora:Object:S 1391
References:   Publications (4)
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Notebook: ΩΔ-4
Notebook Page: ΩΔ-4-32 (pp. 655-656)
Card: S 558