"dc-title","dc-creator","dc-publisher","Collection","UserLevel","Redirect","dc-subject","Name","Id","dc-date","dc-description","Chronology","Icon","Type"
"Portrait Head of Male Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 270","Agora:Object:S 270","1933","Nose missing. Surface somewhat worn and chipped. The bearded head made to set in to a separate body, with the neck terminating in a conical 'key' to fit into a socket. The man is bald, the hair at the sides falls over and nearly conceals his ears. His forehead is lined with two vertical lines between the eyebrows. His beard, except for one tuft below the lip divides down the center. The head appears to have been less carefully worked at the back.; Pentelic marble.","2nd century A.D.","Agora:Image:2023.02.0764::/Agora/2023/2023.02/2023.02.0764.tif::2048::1750","Object"
"Portrait Head of Male Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 333","Agora:Object:S 333","3 April 1933","Head of an unknown, middle aged man in a skullcap. The head is broken off at the base of the neck; most of the right ear, the end of the nose and the tip of the left ear are missing. Chips gone from the roll at the right side of the head and from the chin. ; The man is distinctly middle aged, with deep lines about the eyes and from the nose to the chin, and three wrinkles across the forehead. He wears a skullcap, the end of which forms a large roll around his head. A wavy line over either temple may represent the edge of his hair or may be an attempt to show realistically the veins of a middle aged person.; Marks of the toothed chisel on the top of the skullcap.; Pentelic marble.; Drilled for setting with large bronze dowel in the 1930's. Drilled at a slightly different angle and set with bronze dowel cemented with plaster 1956.","1st c. B.C.","Agora:Image:2012.03.2451::/Agora/2012/2012.03/2012.03.2451.tif::3336::3432","Object"
"Portrait Head of Male Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 335","Agora:Object:S 335","6 April 1933","The head is considerably over life-size, broken off below the beard; the tip of the nose is missing, and the back of the head has a rectangular patch of hair (doweled on, with the dowel still in place).; The portrait is of a middle aged man, a Roman, with a large curly beard and masses of curly hair coming low on his neck, leaving the tips of his ears free. The eyebrows and the lachrymal glands are indicated. Free use of the drill on the hair and beard.; Pentelic marble.","Early Antonine period.","Agora:Image:2021.02.0369::/Agora/2021/2021.02/2021.02.0369.tif::1986::2048","Object"
"Portrait Head of Male Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 347","Agora:Object:S 347","21 April 1933","The nose and chin have been considerably damaged. At the base of the neck, a roughly picked tongue indicates that the head was inserted into a separate body.; Head, larger than life-size, perhaps of Trajan or a priest. The man has a tremendously long neck and is without beard. His hair is short and tied down by a wreath held by a bow at the neck. A deep horizontal groove across his forehead. The head was probably never finished, as at least two points have been left, one on the forehead and one below the chin.; White Pentelic marble of poor quality.","Flavian period.","Agora:Image:2012.03.4423::/Agora/2012/2012.03/2012.03.4423.tif::2842::3552","Object"
"Portrait Bust of Male Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 356","Agora:Object:S 356","5 May 1933","Missing: upper part of left ear, edges of right ear, tip of nose, left side of neck at join. Mended from two adjoining pieces. The tenon is chipped and broken. The head is preserved from top to tenon, with a cutting sloping upwards from the tenon to the back of the shoulders.; The head represents a young man with short, curling hair, which lies in flat wisps close to his head. His Adam's apple is very visible. The eyebrows are faintly indicated, the tear duct and the wrinkle between his eyebrows are very marked.; Work of the Julio-Claudian period.; Pentelic marble.; Drilled for setting with bronze pin in hollowed base 1956.","10 B.C.-20 A.D.","Agora:Image:2012.03.2492::/Agora/2012/2012.03/2012.03.2492.tif::3666::3648","Object"
"Portrait Head of Female Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 362","Agora:Object:S 362","11 May 1933","In fine preservation.; A portrait of a middle aged woman (Faustina the Younger ?) with rather severe features and with hair parted in the center and drawn down in waves to a chignon in the back, below which escape several locks of hair.; The bust has evidently never been finished: the lobe of the ear is uncut, the rough surface of the forehead is unpolished, the locks of the hair on the neck are without shape, the roughly worked surface of the skin in the region of the clavicles has not been cut down to its final level, and the points on cheek bones and chin have not been removed.; The head was intended as an insert in a large statue: the lower edges of the cut below the base of the neck are rough-picked, with a smooth band at the outer surface.; Work of the 2nd half of the 2nd century A.D.; White Pentelic marble.; Drilled for setting with bronze pin in hollowed base 1956.; ; ADDENDA H. A. T. comments that it retain not only the two big points on the front hair but also some of the lesser points, e.g. on the chin and each cheek, 22 Oct. 1955.; GMAR comments: None on cheeks.","Ca. 162-166 A.D.","Agora:Image:2012.03.4610::/Agora/2012/2012.03/2012.03.4610.tif::3744::5616","Object"
"Portrait Herm","","","Agora","","","","S 387","Agora:Object:S 387","23 June 1933-24 June 1933","Mended from five pieces. Missing: end of nose, edge of left ear; right shoulder and back; small breaks in drapery and neck on left side, slice of hair over the right temple. ; The height of the bust is preserved below the upper part of the breast. It represents a youngish to middle-aged man with untidy curly hair and slightly curling beard and mustache. The eyebrows and lashes are indicated with the tooth chisel; the beard and mustache are also tooth-chiseled. The fold of drapery preserved on the left shoulder and back is much drilled. The iris and the pupil of the eye are drawn in, the pupil deeply incised. A deep wrinkle horizontally crosses the forehead.; The bust was set on a herm: the cutting for attachment may be seen on the left side. The ""smooth"" left side is finely picked and the corner between it and the sloping back beveled.; White Pentelic marble.","Ca. 215-225 A.D.","Agora:Image:2016.05.0988::/Agora/2016/2016.05/2016.05.0988.tif::4545::4912","Object"
"Portrait Head of Male Figure","","","Agora","","","","S 517","Agora:Object:S 517","18 February 1935","Broken off diagonally at the neck, from the right ear. ; A bearded male head, slightly larger than life-size. The nose is broken off; the eyes, very deep set and with pupils and iris incised, look up and outward. Beard, mustache and eyebrows are very light; very slightly raised masses with the locks engraved by shallow strokes; the beard so light as not to change the profile of the chin at all. The hair in contrast, is treated in heavy curling locks, drilled in front and to the side, chiseled on the top, which shows weather wear. ; Good work, certainly a Roman portrait, but not obviously of any emperor, but perhaps of a kosmetes.; Of Antonine or later date.; Pentelic marble.; Cf. Hesperia 29 (1960), p. 389.","Ca. 210-220 A.D.","Agora:Image:2013.04.0366::/Agora/2013/2013.04/2013.04.0366.jpg::4422::4260","Object"