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| Inventory Number: | S 1242 | |
| Section Number: | ΔΔ 219 | |
| Title: | Head of Female Figure with Gilding | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Complete save minor chips. Cut away flat behind as if for attachment to wall. An iron dowel passing from the crown of the head diagonally out to the flat surface has split the marble on the top. Neck finished below for insertion to a statue. Female head, about half life-size, the hair rolled back from the face and falling to the neck at the left side. Ears pierced for earrings. Flesh surfaces carefully finished. Abundant traces of gilding about mouth and nose, on cheeks, eyes, ears, hair, etc. Pentelic (?) marble. Drilled for setting on base December 1960. The iron pin set through the top of the head had rusted and cracked the marble. The two pieces were therefore taken apart and the iron pin removed. It proved to be a square bar set in lead in a round drilled hole. The pin was clearly set from the point of the head entering at the back of the headband and running down towards the back at a steep angle. The lower end of the bar as we found it appears to be an original end. It stopped just short of the flattened back of the marble. The upper end apparently projected from the head and had been broken off in antiquity (H. A. Thompson, 1 May 1954). | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Well, bottom fill. | |
| Notebook Page: | 336 | |
| Negatives: | Leica, XXVII-65, XXIX-20, XXIX-21, XXIX-22, XL-16, LXIV-47 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.235; Th. (iron pin) 0.006; L. (iron pin) 0.09 | |
| Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
| Date: | 21 May 1947 | |
| Section: | ΔΔ | |
| Grid: | ΔΔ:75/Ε | |
| Deposit: | M 20:2 | |
| Bibliography: | Adam (1966), p. 81. | |
| Hesperia 17 (1948), p. 177, n. 41, pl. 53. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948) Images (33) Deposit: M 20:2 Card: S 1242 Card: S 1242 |
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