Agora Object: S 617
Inventory Number:   S 617
Section Number:   Σ 185
Title:   Herm Head Fragment
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Fragment of back of head, life-size.
Middle granular because of having been burned.
Part of back of neck, with hair falling over it; a fillet bound around the head.
Careful work, and rather good. Perhaps archaistic. Small hole at back of neck for inserting metal ornament (?).
Pentelic marble.
Notes:   Ca. 1.80m. below modern ground level
Context:   Mixed fill.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   H. 0.165; P.W. 0.074; Th. ca. 0.07
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   20 February 1936
Section:   Σ
Grid:   Σ:13/ΜΑ
Elevation:   Ca. -1.80m.
Masl:   -1.8m.
Bibliography:   Agora XI, no. 188, p. 156, pl. 52.
References:   Publication: Agora XI
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 175, p. 156
Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177
Image: 2010.19.0145 (Leica S 617)
Card: S 617