Agora Object: S 2445
Inventory Number:   S 2445
Section Number:   ΡΡ 247
Title:   Portrait Head of Male Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken at neck and minor chips missing, bur surface generally fresh.
Portrait of a bearded male, a foreigner perhaps barbarian.
Hair done in large curls and waves, drilled and incised, more detailed toward the front. Prominent brow with thick incised eyebrows. Drooping eyelids, drilled pupils. Thick nose, broken. Mustache and beard done in short incised waves. Thick neck.
Rasp marks clearly visible all over face.
Crystalline white marble.
Context:   Street Stoa shop no. 3.
Notebook Page:   149
Negatives:   Leica, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.315; W. 0.24, (face) 0.165; P.Th. 0.245
Date:   29 July 1971
Section:   ΡΡ
Grid:   S/13-13/16,17
Elevation:   66.50m.
Masl:   66.5m.
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 91-92.
    Hesperia 76 (2007), p. 380, n. 20.
    Guide (1976), p. 295.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 76 (2007)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Images (11)
Card: S 2445