Agora Object: T 2297
Inventory Number:   T 2297
Section Number:   ΝΝ 2209
Title:   Head of Herakles Figurine
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   Large head of bearded man.
Broken off at neck; line of break perhaps original bottom of this piece and is the point at which the head was attached to rest of figure.
Head turned to left; wearing wreath.
Vent hole in center of break, head hollow. A few traces of white in beard and hair.
Soft buff clay.
Notes:   Agora sample no. 426. NEUT. ACT. ANAL., Brookhaven, May 1978.
Context:   Red Hellenistic fill to north of Tank II.
3rd c. B.C. -late.
Notebook Page:   3299, 3629
Negatives:   Leica, 80-41-30, 80-41-31
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.065; W. 0.043; Th. 0.048; H. (face and beard) 0.048
Date:   26 June 1946
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:110-112/ΚΕ-ΚΗ
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 34 (1965), pp. 55-56, pl. 18.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 34 (1965)
Images (8)
Notebook: ΝΝ-17
Notebook: ΝΝ-19
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-17-54 (pp. 3299-3300)
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-19-21 (pp. 3629-3630)
Card: T 2297
Card: T 2297