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| Inventory Number: | S 1451 | |
| Section Number: | Ρ 500 | |
| Title: | Head Fragment of Female Figure | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Back part of small head, broken at base of neck. From a high relief, left side of the head broken off. Hair of head at front rendered in narrow ridges marked off by a groove from the back part, which shows crinkled wavy locks gathered into a shallow plain knot at the nape. At the left side (close to the relief background) the waves are not fully worked. Altar of Ares Series? Pentelic marble. S 400 is a non-joining fragment of same head. They have been put together with plaster. Cf. S 320, S 1072, and S 1078 for similar scale figures in high relief, from this area. Cf. Hesperia 21 (1952) p. 94. Drilled for setting on base 1951. | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Pit between Temple of Ares and altar foundation, ca. 4.00m. N.E. of S.E. corner of Temple (northern pit). | |
| Notebook Page: | 1483 | |
| Negatives: | Leica, XLV-23 | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 0.117 | |
| Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
| Date: | 24 May 1950 | |
| Section: | Ρ | |
| Grid: | Ρ:21/ΝΒ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 88 (2019), no. 13, pp. 631 651, figs. 8, 36. | |
| Published Type: | S 320, | |
| S 1072 | ||
| S 1078 | ||
| Hesperia 21 (1952) p. 94. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 88 (2019) Images (14) Card: S 1451 |
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