Inventory Number: | S 2355 | |
Section Number: | Ω 1550 | |
Title: | Bust of Helios | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Left shoulder and ends of hair on left missing. Chips from hair. Nose inserted separately. Youthful face with long flowing locks to halfway down neck. Prominent brow, long straight nose. Eyes have engraved irises. Narrow mouth, opened slightly, deeply dimpled chin, muscular neck. Wears lightweight tunic. Nose made from separate piece of marble and inserted; a possible ancient repair or so as to enable the piece to be manufactured from a smaller block of marble. Related to Eubouleus type. Fifteen holes for attachment of crown or wreath. Sides roughly beveled to flat, rough-picked back. Large lewis or dowel hole in back, apparently from earlier use as architectural block. An original background has been cut away in the course of ancient repairs. Cf. the "moon plague" S 857 (Υ 249). Slightly stained in places. Pentelic marble. | |
Context: | Well in east colonnade of Peristyle of Roman House H. | |
Notebook Page: | 2521 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 86-412, 86-413, 88-231, 88-232, 88-233, color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.523, (of face) 0.215; W. 0.27, (of face) 0.16; P.W. (of base) 0.24; Th. (of base) 0.19; D. (dowel hole) 0.075 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | 2nd c. A.D. | |
Date: | 31 July 1970 | |
Section: | Ω | |
Grid: | P 21 | |
Elevation: | Ca. -4.80m. | |
Masl: | -4.8m. | |
Deposit: | P 21:2 | |
Lot: | Lot Ω 409 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), pp. 82-83, 96, 98, fig. 49. | |
Camp (1986), p. 204. | ||
Guide (1976), p. 292. | ||
Hesperia 40 (1971), pp. 273-274, pl. 58 b. | ||
Agora XXIV, pp. 37, 41, n. 145, pl. 40 b. | ||
Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:S 857 | |
References: | Publication: Agora XXIV Publication: Hesperia 40 (1971) Publication: Museum Guide (2014) Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 20, p. xvii Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 65, p. 41 Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 221 Report: 1970 Ω Report Page: 1970 Ω, s. 6 Report Page: 1970 Ω, s. 23 Images (17) Deposit: P 21:2 Lot: Ω 409 Notebook: Ω-13 Notebook Page: Ω-13-65 (pp. 2520-2521) Card: S 2355 Card: S 2355 |