Inventory Number: | S 551 | |
Section Number: | Ο 564 | |
Title: | Head of Female Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Broken away behind and at neck. Nose badly damaged; mouth, chin and eyes slightly. Female head, rather more than life-size, with hair parted at center. A little way back is a sunken band with small holes for attachment of metal ornament. Ear lobes pierced. In the break of the neck, the top of a rectangular dowel hole. Pentelic (or Parian ?) marble. Cf. S 2055 (ΕΛ 158), modeling very close. | |
Context: | Late wall. | |
Handling: | is a bit loose on its base. The head should be enclosed in a case or moved indoors, but this is not possible being on permanent display on upper balcony of the Stoa no handling, on permanent display on upper balcony of Stoa of Attalos | |
Notebook Page: | 395 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 5-181, 5-212, 5-213, I-10, I-11, LIX-52, LIX-53, LIX-54, LIX-55, color slide | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.37; W. (at cheeks) 0.22, (dowel hole) 0.02; Th. ca. 0.25; L. (dowel hole) 0.035 | |
Material: | Marble | |
Date: | 9 April 1935 | |
Section: | Ο | |
Grid: | Ο:76/ΛΘ | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), p. 78, fig. 47. | |
Hesperia 81 (2012), pp. 655-656, 658-659, 664-667, 670, 674, 677-678, no. 1, figs. 2, 3, 10, 15. | ||
Stewart (1998), pp. 81-91, figs. 1, 3-4, 6-7, 9. | ||
Guide (1976), pp. 288-289. | ||
Guide (1962), p. 196. | ||
Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:S 2055 | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 81 (2012) Publication: Museum Guide (2014) Images (73) Notebook: ΩΔ-4 Notebook Page: ΩΔ-4-22 (pp. 635-636) Card: S 551 Card: S 551 |