Agora Object: S 2435
Inventory Number:   S 2435
Section Number:   Ω 1924
Title:   Portrait Bust of Female Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Intact. Perhaps unfinished.
Very personalized portrait of a middle-aged woman.
Long strands of hair, parted in middle, pulled down and back over ears. Hair in back bound in a thick coil. She wears a thick fillet tied at the back, and a wreath. Eyebrows defined with lightly incised strokes; frown lines between brows. Large drilled pupils. Dimpled chin. Deep broad lines below eyes and around mouth. Thick neck, receding chin. Light undergarment with heavier wrap over shoulders, tied in front. Large molded base. No inscription. Face and neck somewhat polished.
Crystalline white marble.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   2956
Negatives:   Leica, 86-766, 86-767, 86-768, 86-769, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.795; W. 0.425, (base) 0.35; D. (base) 0.295
Chronology:   3rd c. A.D.
Date:   21 July 1971
Section:   Ω
Grid:   Q 21
Elevation:   -12.00m.
Masl:   -12m.
Deposit:   Q 21:4
Lot:   Lot Ω 529
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 95, 97-98, fig. 55.
    AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 52, fig. 58.
    Hesperia Suppl. 22 (1988), p. 84, n. 113.
    Camp (1986), p. 209, fig. 184.
    Guide (1976), p. 297.
    Hesperia 42 (1973), p. 171, n. 117, pl. 37 b.
    Agora XXIV, p. 41, pl. 38 b.
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 19, p. xvi
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 65, p. 41
Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 219
Report: 1971 Ω
Report Page: 1971 Ω, s. 11
Images (44)
Deposit: Q 21:4
Lot: Ω 529
Notebook: Ω-15
Notebook: Ω-16
Notebook Pages (5)
Card: S 2435