Agora Object: S 1539
Inventory Number:   S 1539
Section Number:   Ρ 646
Title:   Knee Fragment from Akroterion
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken behind, just above and just below the knee, and to right.
Draped right knee, slightly bent, from a life-size statue from akroterion of Temple of Ares.
Good workmanship.
Pentelic marble.
Joins Nike (from Temple of Ares) in National Museum, no. 1732, cf. ArchEph (1895), pls. 4 and 5, and Svoronos (1903), Das Athener Nationalmuseum, I, pl. 23.
For references to other akroteria from Agora see: Hesperia 22 (1953), pp. 141-147, pls. 47-48.
Transferred to the National Museum 17 March 1959.
Notes:   Negatives LIII-48, LIII-49, LIII-50, LIII-51 are destroyed.
Context:   Disturbed late Roman fill.
Negatives:   Leica, LIII-35, LIII-36, LIII-48, LIII-49, LIII-50, LIII-51, LIII-52, 85-691, 85-692, 85-693, 85-694, 85-695
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.315; P.W. 0.175; P.Th. 0.10
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   16 June 1951
Section:   Ρ
Grid:   Ρ:46/ΛΒ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 91 (2022), pp. 97, 126, fig. 9
    Hesperia 90 (2021), no. 16, pp. 535, 567-572, 586. figs. 2, 31.
    Hesperia 88 (2019), p. 694, n. 150.
    Stewart (2019), p. 91, n. 19.
    Praktika (1988), p. 105, pl. 20.3.
    Delivorrias (1974), p. 122.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 142.
    Agora XIV, p. 164, pl. 82 b.
Published Type:   ArchEph (1895), pls. 4 and 5
    Svoronos (1903), pl. 23.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pp. 141-147, pls. 47-48.
References:   Publications (6)
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 19, p. xviii
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 261, p. 236
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 364
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Card: S 1539
Card: S 1539