Inventory Number: | S 2062 | |
Section Number: | ΕΛ 167 | |
Title: | Portrait Bust of Male Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Complete with only minor fractures; life-size. Short hair lying close to head. Mustache and light beard. Drapery hides right arm and hand held across chest. Pupils drilled, irises outlined by incision. Pentelic marble. ***Sliver of bust in Study Collections Case No. 19-8 | |
Notes: | Slivers in small envelop in Study Collections-Case No. 19-11. | |
Context: | Under fallen blocks north of great north retaining wall of Eleusinion. | |
Handling: | Ideally, the object should be covered or moved indoors, but this is not possible as it is on permanent exhibition in the upper balcony of the Stoa of Attalos. The object is not moved from its display area so no special handling is required. | |
Notebook Page: | 283 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 81-588, 81-589, 81-612, 82-1, 82-2, 82-3, 82-4, 82-176, color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. ca. 0.60; W. ca. 0.56 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | 3rd c. A.D. | |
Date: | 17 June 1959 | |
Section: | ΕΛ | |
Grid: | T 18 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), pp. 91-92, fig. 53. | |
Hesperia Suppl. 22 (1988), pp. 88, 111, nn. 134, 138. | ||
JdI 99 (1984), fig. 4. | ||
Guide (1976), p. 289, fig. 153. | ||
Guide (1962), p. 195. | ||
AgoraPicBk 5 (1960), fig. 15. | ||
Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 390-392, pl. 86 a, b. | ||
References: | Publications (4) Images (34) Card: S 2062 |