Agora Object: S 741
Inventory Number:   S 741
Section Number:   ΟΕ 220
Title:   Mold for a Bronze Statue
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Πήλινη μήτρα (καλούπι) χύτευσης κάτω τμήματος χάλκινου αγάλματος Απόλλωνα. Μέσα 6ου αι. π.Χ. Βρέθηκε σε λάκκο εκμαγείου κοντά στον Ναό του Απόλλωνα. 6ος αι. π.Χ.
Category:   Misc. Moulds
Description:   Put together from many pieces; most of the legs, much of the hips, part of the back, and a fragment of the chin and mouth, remain, together with many non-joining fragments.
A standing male figure, about two-thirds life-size, its leg thrust forward. Over the (waxed) core, gritty clay was applied in three or four layers to a total thickness of 0.03m. to 0.045m. The outermost layer was fired red (from a preliminary baking); the innermost black, from the molten metal, particles of which cling to its surface.
For attachment to its base, a spike was let down from each heel. Note in the middle of the back a round hole, possibly for one of the pins that held the inner and outer polos in position.
S 797, B 1538, B 1541 (wrong number) are also parts of the same mould.
Cf. JdI 52 (1937), p. 37.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Μήτρα χάλκινου αγάλματος Απόλλωνος. Αποτελείται από αρκετά θραύσματα. Σώζεται το μεγαλύτερο τμήμα από το πόδι.
Notes:   1 frag. in S. workroom: was in CASE 47 and needs to be reshelved.
Context:   Found in a pit in bedrock between the Temple of Apollo and the Metroon; see notebook, vol. II, p. 382.
Notebook Page:   382
Negatives:   Leica, 6-326, 6-399, 7-493, 7-495, 9-36, 9-37, 9-38, IX-46, IX-47, XXI-27, XXI-28, XXI-29, XXI-30, XL-12, 87-489, VI-88, VI-89, VI-90, VI-91, color slide
PD Number:   PD 448, PD 449, PD 450, PD 451, PD 452, PD 453, PD 454
Dimensions:   P.H. (face fragment) 0.07; P.W. (face fragment) 0.05; W. (base) 0.197; L. (base) 0.365; Diam. (hole in back) 0.006
Date:   11 March 1936
Section:   ΟΕ
Grid:   H 8
Deposit:   H 8:1
Lot:   Lot ΟΕ 110
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), pp. 129-130, fig. 73.
    Camp (1986), p. 139, figs. 115-116.
    AgoraPicBk 20 (1982), figs. 25, 26, 29, 30.
    Palagia (1980), p. 13, n. 51.
    Hesperia 46 (1977), p. 346, no. A 3, pls. 79-80.
    Guide (1976), p. 75, fig. 29.
    AJA 71 (1967), p. 333, n. 32.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), pp. 82-83, 343-344, figs. 8, 43.
    Agora XIV, pp. 137, 189, pl. 97 b, fig. 47.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:JdI 52 (1937), p. 37.
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 20, p. xix
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 261, p. 236
Publication Page: Agora 14, s. 379
Plans and Drawings (7)
Images (50)
Deposit: H 8:1
Lot: ΟΕ 110
Notebook: ΟΕ-2
Notebook: ΟΕ-3
Notebook Page: ΟΕ-2-99 (pp. 381-382)
Notebook Page: ΟΕ-3-6 (pp. 391-392)
Notebook Page: ΟΕ-3-85 (pp. 549-550)
Card: S 741
Card: S 741