Agora Object: S 1295
Inventory Number:   S 1295
Section Number:   ΠΠ 188
Title:   Head of Herakles
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Κεφαλή Ηρακλέους, ίσως προέρχεται από ναό στο Ιερό του στη Μελίτη. Πεντελικό μάρμαρο
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken off across the neck; end of nose and chin chipped. Pick-marks on forehead.
Head, half life-size, turned slightly to the figure's left. Hair and beard rendered in small tight bead-like curls. The eyes have a marked slant, the mustached lips a faint smile. The lion's scalp is worn well down over the brow; the hair covers the ears.
An irregular protuberance with two holes for attachment on the left side near the back.
The surfaces fresh, the marble only slightly patinated; the right side of the face less weathered than the left.
Pentelic marble.
Drilled and set with bronze dowel. Reset 1956.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Μαρμάρινη κεφαλή Ηρακλέους, από πεντελικό μάρμαρο. Φέρει αποκρούσεις στο ύψος του λαιμού και στη μύτη.
Context:   N.-S. Trench VI (late Roman fill; 3rd c. A.D.)
Notebook Page:   523
Negatives:   Leica, XXIX-10, XXIX-11, XXIX-12, XXIX-13, XL-17, color slide
PD Number:   PD 2452
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.147; H. (face) 0.10; W. 0.104; Th. 0.127, (at neck) 0.078
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   30 July 1947
Section:   ΠΠ
Grid:   ΠΠ:75/ΛΣΤ
Period:   Archaic
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 129.
    Guide (1990), p. 237.
    Guide (1976), p. 238.
    Guide (1962), p. 157.
    Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 174-175, pls. 49, 50.1.
    BCH 71-72 (1947-1948), pl. 67.
    ILN (12 November 1949), p. 749, fig. 9.
    Agora XI, no. 97 A, pp. 37-40, pl. 18.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 56, p. 37
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Drawing: PD 2452 (DA 3473)
Images (59)
Notebook: ΠΠ-2
Notebook: ΠΠ-3
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-2-53 (pp. 296-297)
Notebook Page: ΠΠ-3-66 (pp. 522-523)
Card: S 1295
Card: S 1295