Agora Object: S 1232
Inventory Number:   S 1232
Section Number:   ΟΟ 59
Title:   Torso of Athena
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   About two-thirds of body preserved; broken at bottom, and both arms missing. The right arm broken off just below the shoulder, the left ends in a smooth-cut surface just above the elbow, with a hole for attachment. Also head was made separately and set in a shallow rough-picked socket. Two deltas (Δ) scratched on, one on left shoulder, one on left breast. In socket for head, bit of metal preserved (iron rather than led?), beside pinhole for attaching head.
Standing figure, about half life-size, the left leg slightly advanced. She wears the Doric chiton belted on the outside, with the overfold hanging down further at the sides than in the center. The relatively small aegis is worn centered, with the gorgeion like a brooch between the breast. There are three concave scallops on each side in front, with pinholes for the snakes at the points, and one hole on each shoulder; two more in center of belt. Behind, the aegis falls down between shoulders with two scallops to a side, and the hair hangs in a rather flat mass down to the bottom of the aegis.
Pentelic marble.
Type very similar to statue in Venice, cf. Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 105, fig. 323 (p. 71 and fig. 340 in Fourth Edition, 1970); note that that is less than life-size. Date in style of 440-435. (Cf. also Capitoline Athena.)
Context:   Roman fill.
Notebook Page:   130
Negatives:   Leica, XXIX-1, XXIX-2, XXIX-3, XXIX-4, XXIX-5, XXIX-6, XXIX-7, XXXV-46, 93-63-15, 93-63-16, 93-63-18, 93-63-19, 93-63-20, 93-63-21, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.66; W. (across shoulders) ca. 0.28; Th. ca. 0.24
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   28 April 1947
Section:   ΟΟ
Grid:   ΟΟ:58/Ν
Bibliography:   Hesperia 91 (2022), pp. 91, 126, fig. 2.
    Hesperia 90 (2021), no. 5, pp. 546-547, figs. 12, 13.
    Hesperia 88 (2019), p. 694, n. 149.
    Guide (1990), p. 203.
    Guide (1976), p. 196.
    Delivorrias (1974), pp. 22, 23, 24.
    Adam (1966), p. 51.
    Scientific American (August 1950), p. 51.
    Hesperia 18 (1949), p. 234, pls. 51, 52.1
    Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 175, pl. 51.
    BCH 71-72 (1947-1948), p. 429, fig. 5.
    ILN (31 December 1949), p. 1039, fig. 5.
    ILN (12 November 1949), p. 749, fig. 13.
    Agora XI, p. 40.
    Agora XIV, p. 148, n. 152.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Richter (1929), p. 105, fig. 323.
References:   Publications (7)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 59, p. 40
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 206, p. 187
Images (36)
Notebook: ΟΟ-1
Notebook: ΟΟ-2
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-1-69 (pp. 129-130)
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-1-71 (pp. 133-134)
Notebook Page: ΟΟ-2-21 (pp. 233-234)
Card: S 1232
Card: S 1232