Agora Object: S 248
Inventory Number:   S 248
Section Number:   Η 2
Title:   Head of Female Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken off just below the chin, the features largely worn away, the back both worn and broken.
Head of over life-size figure. The hair is drawn down over the forehead in broad waves, covering the ears all but the tips. Over it is worn a headdress consisting of two heavy rolls framing the face. One of these continues round the back of the neck, where a broad band passes over the crown of the head to the front part of the coif.
Pentelic marble.
Drilled for setting on base June 1950.
Context:   Demolition of house 631/16.
Negatives:   Leica, XLIII-83, XLIII-84, XLIII-90
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.28; W. 0.27; Th. 0.26
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   4th c. A.D.
Date:   1933
Section:   Η
Grid:   J 8
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Agora I, no. 54, pp. 69-70, pl. 35.
References:   Publication: Agora I
Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 83, p. 69
Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 121, p. 107
Images (10)
Notebook: Η-1
Notebook Page: Η-1-13 (pp. 13-14)
Card: S 248