Inventory Number: | S 998 | |
Section Number: | Σ 1693 | |
Title: | Portrait Head of Male Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Broken off at neck. Forehead and front part of hair missing, back of neck and back hair also broken off. Features badly chipped and rubbed. Life-size head, with slightly parted lips, broad nose and eyes with wide under-lids. Hair very summarily treated; ordinary workmanship. Pentelic marble. Drilled for setting on base June 1950. ADDENDA Initially interpreted as probably a female head. | |
Context: | Byzantine pithos in Room XVI, with mixed fill. | |
Negatives: | Leica, XLIII-54, XLIII-55 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.255; W. 0.172; Th. 0.229 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | 1st c. B.C. (?). | |
Date: | 24 February 1938 | |
Section: | Σ | |
Grid: | N 8 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Agora I, no. 5, p. 16, pl. 2. | |
References: | Publication: Agora I Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 30, p. 16 Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 121, p. 107 Images (4) Card: S 998 |