Agora Object: T 313
Inventory Number:   T 313
Section Number:   ΣΤ' 330
Title:   Male Head
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Πήλινη χειροποίητη κεφαλή στον τύπο του φιλοσόφου Τέλος 4ου αι. π.Χ.
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   Bearded, bald head.
Chips missing from brow, beard, left cheek, and back of head.
No trace of attachment ot body.
Handmade, but skilfully deeply modelled with engraving tool. No certain traces of paint or glaze.
Clay buff to russet.
ADDENDA: Head of Silen or Sokrates. Eyeballs modelled.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Κεφαλή Παπόσιληνού.
Context:   Cistern, group B. West end of west passage.
Hellenistic.
Negatives:   Leica, color slide, 2-284, XXXIV-68, XXXIV-69, 80-188, 80-189, 80-84-30
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.051; P.W. 0.034; P.L. 0.041
Date:   1 June 1932
Section:   ΣΤ'
Grid:   ΣΤ':45/ΙΑ
Deposit:   H 16:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 178.
    AgoraPicBk 26 (2006), p. 49, fig. 63.
    Histoire et Archéologie 81 (1984), p. 36, fig. 19.
    AgoraPicBk 17 (1978), fig. 18.
    Guide (1962), p. 179.
    Richter (1960), fig. 24, pl. VI, no. III.
    AgoraPicBk 3 (1959), no. 42.
    Hesperia 26 (1957), p. 127, pl. 35, no. 6.
    Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 331.
References:   Publications (6)
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Deposit: H 16:3
Card: T 313