Agora Object: S 2354
Inventory Number:   S 2354
Section Number:   Ω 1549
Title:   Head of Female Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Intact except for end of nose, chips from ears and upper eyelids, chips from just above left ear. Left side stained brown.
Made to be set into a shaft; the bottom is approximately the frustrum of a cone. Rounded face, full bow lips slightly parted, long straight nose, upper eyelids overlie lower ones at corners. Well defined brows. Hair parted in center, pulled back in waves over ears, held in place by headband wrapped three times around head, the ends of which falls down behind ears. Headband very sketchily done and not well defined. Two round dowel holes in bottom for attachment. Fine workmanship, surface very fresh.
Pentelic marble, greenish fault along left side.
Derived from Nike of Paionios. Cf. "Hertz Head" in Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, fig. 639 (p. 187 and figs. 684-685 in fourth edition 1970); Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1936-1937), Sculturaedel Magazzino del Museo Vaticano, no, 47, pl. XV.
Notes:   Cast in Room 37.
Context:   Well in east colonnade of Peristyle of Roman House H.
Notebook Page:   2521
Negatives:   Leica, 86-406, 86-407, 86-408, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.417, (face) ca. 0.221; P.Th. 0.30; W. 0.26, (face) 0.176
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   2nd c. A.D.
Date:   31 July 1970
Section:   Ω
Grid:   P 21
Elevation:   Ca. -4.65m.
Masl:   -4.65m.
Deposit:   P 21:2
Lot:   Lot Ω 409
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 63, 93.
    AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 52, fig. 56.
    Sparkes (1991), fig. 16.
    Guide (1990), p. 205.
    Camp (1986), p. 204.
    Kurtz and Sparkes (1982), pls. 14, 15 a, b.
    Guide (1976), p. 199, fig. 103.
    Delivorrias (1974), p. 42.
    Hesperia 40 (1971), p. 273, pl. 58 a.
    Agora XXIV, p. 41, n. 161, pl. 40 c.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Richter (1929), "Hertz Head", fig. 639.
    Agora:Object:Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1936-1937), no, 47, pl. XV.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 20, p. xvii
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 65, p. 41
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 221
Report: 1970 Ω
Report Page: 1970 Ω, s. 5
Report Page: 1970 Ω, s. 23
Drawing: PD 2447 (DA 3474)
Images (16)
Deposit: P 21:2
Lot: Ω 409
Notebook: Ω-12
Notebook: Ω-13
Notebook Page: Ω-12-38 (pp. 2266-2267)
Notebook Page: Ω-12-39 (pp. 2266-2267)
Notebook Page: Ω-13-65 (pp. 2520-2521)
Card: S 2354
Card: S 2354