Agora Object: S 828
Inventory Number:   S 828
Section Number:   Χ 51
    Χ 437
Title:   Sculpture Group Fragments
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   a) Female head and part of neck; tip of nose broken. Head turned up and to right. Hair combed back in melon fashion, with braid or wreath about back of head. Top of head roughly finished.
b) The right hand and arm preserved to above the elbow. The hand rests on the crotch of a forked tree stump. Branching off to the left the stump is cut off at about 0.025m. above the hand, and on this surface stand two small feet. Flesh carefully finished; stump rougher.
c) The body of a nude boy, which joins the head S 830 (Χ 128) and very nearly joins the small feet on the stump of S 828 b. The boy stands with his left ankle crossed over his right, and his right hand on his hip. His left arm is broken off at the shoulder. In his left side are two holes, as if for attachment to the larger statue.
d) A right leg, apparently belonging to the same group, preserved nearly to the knee, and standing on a thin irregular plinth. Remains of red color from a painted sandal.
Island marble.
Notes:   Levels:
a) (Χ 51) Ca. -2.00m.
b) (Χ 51) Ca. -2.40m.
c),d) (Χ 437) -3.80m.
Context:   a), b) (Χ 51) Cistern.
c), d) (Χ 437) Same cistern.
Negatives:   Leica, 7-139, V-12, V-14, 99-38-16, 99-38-17, 99-38-18, 99-38-19, 99-38-20, 99-38-21, 99-38-22, 99-38-23, 99-38-24, 99-38-25, 99-38-26, 99-38-27
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.081, b) 0.195, c) 0.14, d) 0.10; W. a) 0.046; Th. a) 0.055; Diam. b) (lower end of stump) 0.031
Material:   Marble (Island)
Date:   a) (Χ 51) 9 February 1937,
b) (Χ 51) 12 February 1937,
c), d) (Χ 437) 26 March 1937
Section:   Χ
Grid:   Χ:84/ΝΣΤ
Elevation:   -2.00m.
-2.40m.
-3.80m.
Masl:   -3.8--2m.
Deposit:   N 19:1.1
Bibliography:   Hesperia 86 (2017), p. 109, n. 44.
    Hesperia 81 (2012), pp. 286-288, 312, 315-316, 323-324, no. 8, figs. 21-23.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 81 (2012)
Publication: Hesperia 86 (2017)
Report Page: 1937 Χ, s. 7
Images (34)
Deposit: N 19:1
Deposit: N 19:1.1
Notebook: Χ-1
Notebook: Χ-3
Notebook: Χ-5
Notebook Pages (6)
Card: S 828
Card: S 828