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Female head, wearing elaborate headdress (or helmet with turned-up cheek-piece?) over curling locks.
Face and left side of head preserved; broken all around.
Remains of red wash on face.
ADDENDA Probably ... 26-27 May 1949 ... elaborate headdress (or helmet ... Probably helmet; cf. Late Roman Helmeted Head.
For mold cf. T ... Area of 13th. and 14th. piers; early Byzantine fill below general level of house |
Mended and complete. Glaze abraded on one handle. H. 0.065; diam. at rim 0.19; diam. of tondo 0.106; diam. of foot 0.08. Themelis, Agora: Guide, fig. opp. p. 62; M. Lang, Socrates in the Agora (Agora Picture ... Ca. 500 B.C ... for the index finger ... meanings. See the general |
| Marble sculpture with neck and chest cut on an oval plan, under surface convex and rough-picked; presumably designed for insertion into body of wood (tenon common on heads intended for insertion into marble ... 1962/03/06 ... out 0.015 from general ... helmet(?). Possibly marble foot |
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