| Inventory Number: | PNS 6 | |
| Title: | Head | |
| Description: | Flesh polished very smooth, hair slightly polished. Back and side broken off. The face is very long, with large eyes, well-defined upper [eye] lids and eye brows. Deep hole punched in inner corner of each eye. The mouth, fairly large, is slightly open, with similar holes at each corner. Cheeks are rounded and [unreadable]. The forehead is fairly high, and the hair forms into a triangle. Hair parted in the center, falls in deep curves accentuated by engraved lines. A heavy fillet/diadem encircles the head with a [...] indicated by engraved lines. Directly back of the fillet two small,deep holes are bored in the head, for attachment to a bracket (?). The ear is not represented, but a hole is pierced in its place for an earring. White marble, very fine-grained. Crystalline, but the crystals do not show on the surface. | |
| Context: | South Slope of Pnyx Hill, Surface. | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 0.055 | |
| Date: | 1934 | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia Suppl. 7 (1943), pp. 39-40, no. 16, fig. 18. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 7 (1943) Card: PNS 6 Card: PNS 6 |
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