Inventory Number: | S 2354 | |
Section Number: | Ω 1549 | |
Title: | Head of Female Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Intact except for end of nose, chips from ears and upper eyelids, chips from just above left ear. Left side stained brown. Made to be set into a shaft; the bottom is approximately the frustrum of a cone. Rounded face, full bow lips slightly parted, long straight nose, upper eyelids overlie lower ones at corners. Well defined brows. Hair parted in center, pulled back in waves over ears, held in place by headband wrapped three times around head, the ends of which falls down behind ears. Headband very sketchily done and not well defined. Two round dowel holes in bottom for attachment. Fine workmanship, surface very fresh. Pentelic marble, greenish fault along left side. Derived from Nike of Paionios. Cf. "Hertz Head" in Richter (1929), Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, fig. 639 (p. 187 and figs. 684-685 in fourth edition 1970); Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1936-1937), Sculturaedel Magazzino del Museo Vaticano, no, 47, pl. XV. | |
Notes: | Cast in Room 37. | |
Context: | Well in east colonnade of Peristyle of Roman House H. | |
Notebook Page: | 2521 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 86-406, 86-407, 86-408, color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.417, (face) ca. 0.221; P.Th. 0.30; W. 0.26, (face) 0.176 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Chronology: | 2nd c. A.D. | |
Date: | 31 July 1970 | |
Section: | Ω | |
Grid: | P 21 | |
Elevation: | Ca. -4.65m. | |
Masl: | -4.65m. | |
Deposit: | P 21:2 | |
Lot: | Lot Ω 409 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), pp. 63, 93. | |
AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 52, fig. 56. | ||
Sparkes (1991), fig. 16. | ||
Guide (1990), p. 205. | ||
Camp (1986), p. 204. | ||
Kurtz and Sparkes (1982), pls. 14, 15 a, b. | ||
Guide (1976), p. 199, fig. 103. | ||
Delivorrias (1974), p. 42. | ||
Hesperia 40 (1971), p. 273, pl. 58 a. | ||
Agora XXIV, p. 41, n. 161, pl. 40 c. | ||
Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:Richter (1929), "Hertz Head", fig. 639. | |
Agora:Object:Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1936-1937), no, 47, pl. XV. | ||
References: | Publications (4) Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 20, p. xvii Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 65, p. 41 Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 221 Report: 1970 Ω Report Page: 1970 Ω, s. 5 Report Page: 1970 Ω, s. 23 Drawing: PD 2447 (DA 3474) Images (16) Deposit: P 21:2 Lot: Ω 409 Notebook: Ω-12 Notebook: Ω-13 Notebook Page: Ω-12-38 (pp. 2266-2267) Notebook Page: Ω-12-39 (pp. 2266-2267) Notebook Page: Ω-13-65 (pp. 2520-2521) Card: S 2354 Card: S 2354 |