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| 2009.05.0096 (82-424) | A pit filled with emery powder that had been used for polishing stone, in the ruins of a marbleworkers's shop. | 28 Jul 1960 | | | | 2008.01.0014 | An unfinished statuette of a seated female figure from the house of Mikion and Menon, 4th century B.C. The figure in in the early stages of work, with only its general form and seat roughed out with a point. | 12 Jul 2005 | | | | 2008.01.0016 | An unfinished relief, perhaps a trial peice, showing a roughly delineated profile head, from the house of the sculptors Mikion and Menon, 4th century B.C. The head has been outlined with a point and its surface given an initial smoothing with a claw chisel. | 12 Jul 2005 | | | | 2008.01.0020 | A fragment of a relief depicting the god Hermes, with claw-chisel work on the background. Late 5th century B.C. | 14 Jul 2005 | | | | 2008.01.0021 | Unfinished Roman portrait of a woman, from the Library of Pantainos, ca. A.D. 170. One of the sculptor's measuring points, a tiny hole, is still visible in the middle of the chin. Most of the surface of the face has not yet been smoothed, and the ears, eyebrows and details fo the eyes are not yet finished. The head would have been set into a separately carved body. | 27 Jul 2005 | | | | 2008.01.0023 | An unfinished statuette of Herakles, showing marks of the flat chisel on the body. | 12 Jul 2005 | | | | 2008.01.0026 | Roman statuette of the Mother of the Gods with a lion on her side. The Mother of the Gods was an Anatolian deity who became identified with the Greek goddesses Rhea and Demeter. | 31 Jul 2005 | | | | 2008.01.0030 | Unfinished head of a kouros statuette. Found in the Street of the Marbleworkers, late 6th or early 5th century. | 12 Jul 2005 | | |
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