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Object: S 1295

Inventory Number:		S 1295
Section Number:		ΠΠ 188
Title:		Head of Herakles
Category:		Sculpture
Description:		Broken off across the neck; end of nose and chin chipped. Pick-marks on forehead. Head, half life-size, turned slightly to the figure's left. Hair and beard rendered in small tight bead-like curls. The eyes have a marked slant, the mustached lips a faint smile. The lion's scalp is worn well down over the brow; the hair covers the ears. An irregular protuberance with two holes for attachment on the left side near the back. The surfaces fresh, the marble only slightly patinated; the right side of the face less weathered than the left. Pentelic marble. Drilled and set with bronze dowel. Reset 1956.
Context:		N.-S. Trench VI (late Roman fill; 3rd c. A.D.)
Notebook Page:		523
Negatives:		Leica, XXIX-10, XXIX-11, XXIX-12, XXIX-13, XL-17, color slide
PD Number:		PD 2452
Dimensions:		P.H. 0.147; H. (face) 0.10; W. 0.104; Th. 0.127, (at neck) 0.078
Material:		Marble (Pentelic)
Date:		30 July 1947
Section:		ΠΠ
Grid:		ΠΠ:75/ΛΣΤ
Period:		Archaic
Bibliography:		Museum Guide (2014), p. 129.
		Guide (1990), p. 237.
		Guide (1976), p. 238.
		Guide (1962), p. 157.
		Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 174-175, pls. 49, 50.1.
		BCH 71-72 (1947-1948), pl. 67.
		ILN (12 November 1949), p. 749, fig. 9.
		Agora XI, no. 97 A, pp. 37-40, pl. 18.
References:		Publication: Agora XI Publication: Hesperia 17 (1948) Publication: Museum Guide (2014) Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 56, p. 37 Publication Page: Agora 11, s. 196, p. 177 Drawing: PD 2452 (DA 3473) Images (59) Notebook Page: ΠΠ-2-53 (pp. 296-297) Notebook Page: ΠΠ-3-66 (pp. 522-523) Card: S 1295 Card: S 1295