Agora Object: S 597
Inventory Number:   S 597
Section Number:   Ν' 80
Title:   Herm Head Fragment
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   The face, about life-size, is preserved, the chin missing and the cheeks broken away.
The top of the head has its original surface, a smooth-finished one across its front, with rough-picked surface behind. This top surface forms an obtuse angle with the brow.
Carefully worked to a smooth-polished finish.
Island (?) marble.
Cf. S 553 (Ν 263), S 554 (Ν 264), S 558 (Ο 590), S 1213 (ΩΔ 218) and S 1391 (ΣΑ 327).
ADDENDA Published as made of Pentelic marble.
Context:   In yellow gray fill, poros blocks of Burnt Building wall.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.107; P.W. 0.075; Th. 0.052
Material:   Marble
Date:   18 June 1935
Section:   Ν'
Grid:   Ν':38/Ν
Elevation:   Ca. -0.25m.
Masl:   -.25m.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 19 (1950), p. 66, pl. 49 d.
    Agora XI, no. 222, p. 170, pl. 59.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:S 553
    Agora:Object:S 554
    Agora:Object:S 558
    Agora:Object:S 1213
    Agora:Object:S 1391
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication: Hesperia 19 (1950)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 189, p. 170
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Image: 2004.01.1521 (HAT 49-310)
Image: 2004.01.1477 (HAT 50-20)
Image: 2010.19.0179 (Leica S 597)
Notebook: ΩΔ-4
Notebook Page: ΩΔ-4-32 (pp. 655-656)
Card: S 597