Agora Object: T 785
Inventory Number:   T 785
Section Number:   Β 1377
Title:   Female Protome Fragment
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   First interpretation: woman 's head in relief; of good period and style.
Top and back edge finished; broken below and to left.
There never was more than a head: the neck is not modelled.
Moulded. Unglazed. Meant to be affixed behinda mask, or protome (?)
Fine highly micaceous brownish-buff clay; with grayish core.
Another fragment, found later and joining to the left, connects this piece with the similar head numbered T 786. There are neatly finished holes, between each pair of heads, at the level of the neck.
Now joined to the left of T 786.
Context:   Well 5.
5th c. B.C.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.078; P.W. 0.056; W. (over all as joined) 0.175; Diam. (holes) ca. 0.01
Date:   27 March 1935
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:62/ΛΣΤ
Elevation:   -6.00m.
Masl:   -6m.
Deposit:   E 13:1
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 64 (1995), p. 414, n. 21.
    Hesperia Suppl. 25 (1992), p. 55.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 64 (1995)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 25 (1992)
Deposit: E 13:1
Notebook: Β-8
Notebook: Β-9
Notebook: Β-11
Notebook Page: Β-8-106
Notebook Page: Β-9-15 (pp. 1601-1602)
Notebook Page: Β-11-31 (pp. 2020-2021)
Card: T 785