Agora Object: S 2903
Inventory Number:   S 2903
Section Number:   Ω 1999
Title:   Head Fragment of Female Figure from Grave Relief
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Very battered female head preserving top of head to base of neck, sheared away from background, in very high relief.
Face battered away, three-quarters turn to the left and tilted slightly upwards. Harshly worked picked hair towards background plane. Rasp-work on neck contrasts to very smooth surface; left ear deeply and harshly drilled. Marble flaking away and weathered on front of neck.
Roman.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   From circled marbles.
Notebook Page:   3172
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.215; P.W. 0.115; P.Th. 0.11
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   10 August 1977
Section:   Ω
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Agora XXXV, no. 289, pl. 93.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXV
Images (4)
Notebook: Ω-16
Notebook Page: Ω-16-91 (pp. 3172-3173)
Card: S 2903