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Fragment from a tragic mask with pierced eyes.
Nose, somewhat chipped, eyes and forehead preserved; broken all around.
Traces of white sizing and red paint.
ADDENDA: Nostrils and mouth pierced. Pinkish ... Publication: 300-275 B.C. |
First interpretation: satyr mask.
Slave mask in high relief, with pierced grooved handle (like Roman lamp handles) above.
Traces of metallic black glaze almost entirely peeled off.
Gray clay. Well, dump, ... 24 July 1946 |
| Rectangular altar, hollowed at the top; base and crowning mouldings in two degrees. A boukranion in relief on the front; a round hole at the back. Volutes at the top in front.
Small fragments missing ... 14 March 1947 |
The right front leg, with part of shoulder, chest and mane.
Hard red clay with buff surface. Gravelly fill over floor. Probably clearly Roman. Leica ... 29 March 1947 |
Head of a negro or athlete with short-cropped hair, thick lips and chin whiskers. Irises of eyes pierced.
Back part of head broken away, as well as neck below chin.
From a plastic lamp.
Dull red glaze ... 3 April 1947 |
| Male head with a heavy rolled crown worn over a wreath and fillet.
Broken off at neck.
Traces of white.
Greenish-buff clay. Brown Byzantine fill. 3967 Leica, XXIX-36 ... 5 April 1947 |
| High rectangular shaft with block-arms at the top. Long tresses of hair hang to each side of the chest and in a mass at the back. A fruit (half-peeled fig?) on the right shoulder and missing from the left ... 5 April 1947 |
Circular wheel with a square cutting through the center.
Outer face grooved for, and worn by, rope. Well, fill 8. Leica ... 17 July 1946 |
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