Inventory Number: | S 1268 | |
Section Number: | ΟΟ 181 | |
Title: | Portrait Head of Female Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Broken off at neck, chipped at nose, mouth and chin, and considerably battered. Small female head, less than half life-size, her hair arranged in an elaborate Flavian style, made up of braids giving a herringbone effect, and built out at the back to a projecting disk. Just above the center of the forehead, and behind the front line of the hair is a shallow horizontal cutting for the attachment of something: ornament or frame of curls? Pentelic marble. Drilled for setting on base December 1960. Period of Trajan. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Latest Roman fill. | |
Negatives: | Leica, XXIX-44, XXIX-45, XXIX-46, XL-14, XLIX-66 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.12; L. 0.10, (cutting) 0.018; W. 0.08 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | Period of Trajan. | |
Date: | 16 June 1947 | |
Section: | ΟΟ | |
Grid: | ΟΟ:62/ΛΖ | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | AgoraPicBk 5 (1960), fig. 22. | |
Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 178, pl. 55. | ||
Agora I, no, 20, pp. 31-32, pl. 15. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora I Publication: AgoraPicBk 5 (1960) Publication: Hesperia 18 (1949) Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 45, p. 31 Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 121, p. 107 Images (24) Notebook: ΟΟ-4 Notebook Page: ΟΟ-4-12 (pp. 614-615) Card: S 1268 |