Inventory Number: | S 1604 | |
Section Number: | Ν 863 | |
Title: | Portrait Head of Male Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Nose chipped; otherwise intact except for minor chips. Portrait of middle-aged man with close-trimmed beard and mustache. Hair simply treated and cap-like except for locks falling over forehead. Eyes have irises cut out, balls and pupils not cut. Mouth decisively closed. Surface of flesh rasp-finished, hair done with round-nosed chisels, beard with punch and point. Below neck, pointed tenon for setting into statue. Pentelic marble. Set into the statue S 850 (Σ 1353) for display in August 1957. ADDENDA Homer A. Thompson's account attached to the card: Found in a Byzantine house foundation some 5.00m. to the west of the mid part of the Odeion, together with fragments of two inscribed bases of the Roman period (I 6502, I 6503), the leg of a male figure of life-size, roughly worked (S 1605), and pottery of the 3rd c. A.D. The head is cut with a tenon for insertion in a statue. The nose and the lobe of the left ear are chipped; the left side is splotched with brown discoloration. The surface is fresh and unweathered. The portrait represents a middle-aged man with a full head of hair, short beard and mustache. The hair has a cap-like effect with an abrupt lower termination behind. On the back of the head there is no indication of locks. Elsewhere the texture is suggested by shallow furrows made with a gouge driven in a vertical direction behind the ears, in a horizontal direction on the sides and top of the head. Above the forehead five flame-shaped locks have been isolated and worked in higher relief. The texture of the beard has been indicated by means of shallow working with gouge and point. A bridge of marble between lower lip and chin presumably represents a goatee. The pupils have been drilled in crescent shape; the iris is lightly incised. All the flesh surfaces retain light rasp marks. | |
Notes: | Negatives LIII-56, LIII-57, LIII-58 destroyed. | |
Context: | Area south of Gymnasium Apse, Wall no. 3. | |
Notebook Page: | 1700 | |
Negatives: | Leica, LIII-56, LIII-57, LIII-58, color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.458, (worked portion where head fits body) 0.187, (left ear) 0.075, (right ear) 0.07; W. 0.204, (between eyes) 0.037; Th. 0.245; L. (chin to hairline in middle of forehead) 0.218, (eyes) 0.034, (mouth) 0.05 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | Late 3rd c. or early 4th c. A.D. | |
Date: | 5 April 1952 | |
Section: | Ν | |
Grid: | K 10 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), p. 55, fig. 34. | |
Guide (1990), p. 211. | ||
Hesperia Suppl. 22 (1988), pp. 88, 111, nn. 135, 140. | ||
AA 101 (1986), pp. 245, 246, fig. 26. | ||
BJb 181 (1981), (Meischner, Jutta). | ||
Guide (1976), p. 206. | ||
Guide (1962), p. 134. | ||
AgoraPicBk 5 (1960), fig. 36. | ||
Agora I, no. 52, pp. 67-69, pl. 34. | ||
References: | Publications (4) Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 81, p. 67 Publication Page: Agora 1, s. 121, p. 107 Report: 1952 Excavations Ε, Η, Ν Report Page: 1952 Excavations Ε, Η, Ν, s. 9 Images (9) Notebook: Ν-9 Notebook: Ν-10 Notebook Pages (4) Card: S 1604 Card: S 1604 Card: S 1604 |