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| Inventory Number: | S 1052 | |
| Section Number: | Σ 1900 | |
| Title: | Head of Male Figure | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Part of back and right side missing, also nose. Broken off at neck; minor chips. A head of an elderly man, slightly over life-size with a thick curly beard and drooping mustache. He has heavy curling hair, which escapes at the front of his head from a thick mantle, which is pulled diagonally over it. Head slightly turned to the left, and looking up. Roman work with much drill-work on the beard, but good modeling and good flesh surfaces. An emperor sacrificing, in the guise of Zeus (?). Pentelic marble | |
| Context: | From late wall. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 8-115, VII-4 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.357; W. 0.278; Th. 0.23 | |
| Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
| Date: | 20 May 1938 | |
| Section: | Σ | |
| Grid: | Σ:50/ΜΓ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 240-242, fig. 41. | |
| ILN (9 July 1938), p. 57, no. 5. | ||
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939) Images (4) Card: S 1052 |
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