Agora Object: S 166
Inventory Number:   S 166
Section Number:   Ε 87
Title:   Portrait Statue of the Emperor Hadrian
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Colossal statue, the legs broken off; the head, the left arm from the shoulder and the right arm from the elbow, all made separately, are missing.
The figure wears kilt, corselet and cloak. The corselet is elaborately decorated in relief: between two Victories, Athena standing on the she-wolf; on the lappets, heads of Zeus Ammon, Apollo (?), elephant's heads and smaller ornamental motifs.
The back roughly blocked.
Pentelic marble.
S 749 (Ρ 301) possibly belongs to this statue.
An envelope with small pieces are kept in the North Basement.
Notes:   9 February 1932 is removal date; finding date is 25 July 1931, see notebook E 3 1931 pp. 518 ff.
Also pp. 97-102, E 1 1932.
In July 2017, during the removal of the statue to the Lower Colonnade, some bits came apart, and brought to records by the conservator in charge, Makis Korrosis. They are stored in Study Collections-Case No. 19-3
Context:   In the Great Drain, ca. 8.00m. east of the N.E. corner of the Metroon.
Notebook Page:   97 ff.
Negatives:   Leica, LV-12, 1-55, 1-56, 2-49(51-69), 88-32, 88-33, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. 1.52; W. (at shoulders) 0.82
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Chronology:   117-138 A.D.
Date:   9 February 1932
Section:   Ε
Grid:   Ε:3/Μ
Elevation:   -2.50m.
Masl:   -2.5m.
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Martens (2023), p. 161, n. 101.
    Guide (2010), p. 64, fig. 33.
    Camp (2008), pp. 87, 88, fig. 1.
    Mauzy (2006), pp. 22-23, figs. 38-43.
    Hesperia Suppl. 33 (2004), pp. 371-377, fig. 19.1.
    Guide (1990), pp. 66-68, fig. 31.
    Hesperia Suppl. 22 (1988), p. 77, n. 67.
    Camp (1986), pp. 191-193, fig. 162.
    AgoraPicBk 22 (1985), pp. 13-14, fig. 26.
    AgoraPicBk 19 (1980), p. 22, fig. 44.
    Guide (1976), p. 68.
    Guide (1962), p. 51.
    AgoraPicBk 5 (1960), fig. 14.
    Graindor (1934), pp. 258-259 .
    Art and Archaeology 34 (January-February 1933), p. 22.
    Hesperia 2 (1933), pp. 178-183, figs. 8-10, pl. 6.
    AA 47 (1932), p. 112, fig. 5.
    AJA 36 (1932), pp. 383, 385.
    ILN (29 August 1931), 25 June 1932).
    L'Illustration (12 March 1932), pp. 326-327.
    Agora I, no. 56, pp. 71-74, pls. 36-37.
    Agora XIV, p. 101, pl. 53 b.
References:   Publications (10)
Publication Pages (5)
Images (64)
Notebook: Ε-1
Notebook: Ε-1-BIS
Notebook Page: Ε-1-BIS-50 (pp. 91-92)
Notebook Page: Ε-1-BIS-53 (pp. 97-98)
Card: S 166
Card: S 166