Agora Object: I 7179
Inventory Number:   I 7179
Section Number:   ΒΓ 158
Title:   Herm Shaft
Category:   Inscriptions
Description:   Inscribed Herm shaft.
Broken across neck and tendon, and irregularly at bottom.
Back rough picked, other surfaces smooth. Tendon originally. Arm socket on proper left side. Front has membrum virile in low relief. At bottom a rough picked band along the four edges, made after bottom had been broken.
Inscribed on three sides.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Found built into foundations of the late Roman Circular Building.
Negatives:   Leica, 86-471, 86-472, 86-473
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.645; Th. 0.229; W. 0.268, (of tendon) 0.22, (arm socket on left side) 0.044, (of right side) 0.038; H. (of tendon) ca. 0.18, (arm socket of left side) 0.038, (of right side) 0.078; D. (arm socket of left side) 0.038, (of right side) 0.044
Date:   10 August 1970
Section:   ΒΓ
Grid:   J/9-5/9
Bibliography:   Hesperia 49 (1980), p. 252, n. 2.
    Hesperia 40 (1971), p. 315, pl. 64.
    Agora XV, nos. 399, 447, 448, pp. 286, 313.
References:   Publication: Agora XV
Publication: Hesperia 40 (1971)
Publication: Hesperia 49 (1980)
Publication Page: Agora 15, s. 298, p. 286
Publication Page: Agora 15, s. 498, p. 486
Image: 2012.58.0342 (86-471)
Image: 2012.58.0343 (86-472)
Image: 2012.58.0344 (86-473)
Card: I 7179