Object: S 1227
Inventory Number:   S 1227
Section Number:   ΓΓ 1038
Title:   Portrait Head of Male Figure
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   A life-sized head of a man, broken behind and at neck. Nose damaged, but features otherwise well preserved.
Curly hair on head. Mustache, chin, beard and sideburns rendered in very low relief and by incision.
Replica of Meleager.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Built into late Roman wall.
Notebook Page:   2099
Negatives:   Leica, XXVII-50, XXVII-51, LXXV-40, LXXV-41, LXXV-42, color slide
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.265; W. 0.21
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   26 March 1947
Section:   ΓΓ
Grid:   ΓΓ:17/ΙΒ
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 81.
    Guide (1976), p. 295.
    Guide (1962), p. 194.
    Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 381-382, pl. 85 b.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 29 (1960)
Publication: Museum Guide (2014)
Images (47)
Card: S 1227