Agora Object: S 2178
Inventory Number:   S 2178
Section Number:   ΠΑ 584
Title:   Head Fragment of Male Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Right side of head, broken off at right of nose and diagonally across bottom with break running from chin to base of skull. Face very badly battered.
Life-sized male head, heavily bearded, with short hair, wearing thick round fillet with part of knot at back of head preserved. Traces of right eye, diagonal line from nostril to mouth, and corner of mouth visible. Ear and drilled hair in front of it better preserved. Top of head, inside fillet, smooth.
White fine-grained Pentelic marble.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Trench zeta; in pithos with Byzantine fill.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.25; P.W. 0.11; P.Th. 0.23
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   10 May 1965
Section:   ΠΑ
Grid:   S 15
Bibliography:   Hesperia 35 (1966), p. 85, pl. 30 e.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 35 (1966)
Images (4)
Card: S 2178