Inventory Number: | S 1459 | |
Section Number: | Ρ 543 | |
Title: | Head of Male Figure from Relief | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Right half of forehead and cheek missing; broken at neck, and small broken surface at back of head, probably marking break from relief ground. Male head, about half life-size, with short beard and drooping mustache, in high relief with head in three-quarters view turned to the right. Note that the neck is finished in the round; three grooves on lower part of back to separate it from background. Left side of head rough finished; now battered but apparently left ear never carved. Much weathered. From the Altar of Ares Series. Pentelic marble. Cf. Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 94. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | On north wall of altar foundation; black fill in hole where second course is missing. | |
Notebook Page: | 1821 | |
Negatives: | Leica, XLV-16, XLV-17, LIII-59, 85-427, color slide | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.14; P.W. 0.096; Th. ca. 0.11 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Date: | 17 June 1950 | |
Section: | Ρ | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 91 (2022), p. 100, fig. 12b. | |
Hesperia 88 (2019), no. 1, pp. 628, 639-640, figs. 3, 22. | ||
AJA 81 (1977), p. 173, fig. 38. | ||
Delivorrias (1974), pp. 51, 144, nn. 581, 620. | ||
Hesperia 20 (1951), p. 57, pl. 29 b, c. | ||
FA 5 (1950), fig. 18, (1600). | ||
ILN (11 November 1950), p. 766, fig. 2. | ||
Agora XIV, p. 164, pl. 82 c. | ||
Published Type: | Hesperia 21 (1952), p. 94. | |
References: | Publications (5) Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 19, p. xviii Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 261, p. 236 Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 364 Images (25) Card: S 1459 Card: S 1459 |