Agora Object: T 10
Inventory Number:   T 10
Section Number:   Α
Title:   Head of Female Figure
Category:   Terracotta
Description:   Head of female figurine with high headdress above elaborately waved hair.
Around the face the hair is arranged in a row of formal waves crowned with a band. Above this band rises a square cornered arrangement of hair or veil; the back of the head, with shallow herring bone design, bulges prominently. The face is round with large thick-lidded eyes, broad heavy nose, and small mouth with thick lips; first signs of double chin.
Traces of white and red paint. Band painted white. Mold made, hollow.
Pinkish clay.
Cf. Kübler (1931), AM 56, pp. 79 ff.
Delattre (1899), Musée Lavigerie, p. 45, pl. IX, nos. 3, 10.
Notebook Page:   194
Negatives:   Leica, 1-100, 2-109
Dimensions:   H. 0.068
Date:   23 June 1931
Section:   Α
Grid:   Α:37/ΚΒ
Elevation:   -2.30m.
Masl:   -2.3m.
Period:   Roman
Bibliography:   Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 192, fig. 7, no. 9.
    Agora VI, no. 40, p. 44, pl. 3.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Kübler (1931), AM 56, pp. 79 ff.
    Agora:Object:Delattre (1899), p. 45, pl. IX, nos. 3, 10.
References:   Publication: Agora VI
Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Publication Page: Agora 6, s. 101, p. 89
Image: 2012.20.0096 (1-100)
Image: 2012.20.0278 (2-109)
Notebook: Α-1
Notebook Page: Α-1-104 (pp. 194-195)
Card: T 10