Agora Object: T 106
Inventory Number:   T 106
Section Number:   ΣΤ 257
Title:   Standing Male Figurine
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   Fragment of male figure with chlamys around middle.
Preserved from neck to right knee and left shin. Right arm broken away just below shoulder; bits missing from drapery. Hair and beard (?) ends show at edge of upper break.
The figure is that of a fat man. The right arm was bent back at the shoulder. The left is bent at the elbow and holds in place the garment which hides the hand, passes round the small of the back and returns across the portly abdomen to hang over the forearm. Tucked in the folds, left side, is a club (? or torch of which top is missing ?).
Mould-made. Traces of all-over white paint.
Soapy pinkish buff clay.
ADDENDA: According to the publication this figure is a boy figurine.
Notes:   3.10m. below stone
Context:   Cistern at 3.10m. below stone.
Negatives:   Leica, 2-117, 80-85-27, 80-85-28, 80-85-29
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.072; P.W. 0.041; Th. 0.031
Date:   2 March 1932
Section:   ΣΤ
Grid:   ΣΤ:9/Β
Elevation:   Ca. -3.10m.
Masl:   -3.1m.
Deposit:   F 16:1
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 23 (1954), p. 107, pl. 24, no. 10.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 23 (1954)
Images (4)
Deposit: F 16:1
Card: T 106
Card: T 106