Agora Object: S 476
Inventory Number:   S 476
Section Number:   Β 609
Title:   Head of Female Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken off at the neck; the nose broken, and a piece missing from the top of the head; otherwise well preserved, save for a few chips, and the remains of cement from the wall.
Modern dowel hole in neck: cf. S 473.
The head, slightly under life-size, is tipped slightly to the figure's right. The hair, worn in short curls brushed back from the brow, seems to have been held in place by a fillet of another material; a groove for this fillet, but no trace of metal, remains. The surface of the hair is left very rough, as if for color; the flesh is carefully polished.
Although in scale and in style this head corresponds very closely to the statue S 473 (Β 571), near which it was found, there is no direct join, and the neck muscles make it seem unlikely that statue and head belong together. For a temporary union, see large photo, pl. no. 4-179.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   In packing behind heavy Roman wall.
Notebook Page:   679
Negatives:   Leica, 4-195, 4-196
Dimensions:   H. 0.197; W. 0.156; Th. 0.164
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   19 April 1934
Section:   Β
Grid:   Β:24/ΛΒ
Bibliography:   Hesperia 85 (2016), p. 583, n. 12; p. 614, n. 79.
    Museum Guide (2014), p. 79.
    Hesperia 81 (2012), pp. 298-299, 302, 306, 308, 311-315, 317, 322-323, no. 7, n. 87, fig. 36.
    Guide (1976), p. 293.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 168, n. 1.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:S 473
References:   Publications (4)
Images (46)
Notebook: Β-4
Notebook: Β-6
Notebook Page: Β-4-47 (pp. 679-680)
Notebook Page: Β-6-94 (pp. 1163-1164)
Card: S 476