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| Inventory Number: | S 1596 | |
| Section Number: | Τ 1230 | |
| Title: | Head of Male Figure: Persian | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Broken at bottom, and along right side of head towards back. Top of cap, tip of nose and chip below left eye missing. Male head, about half life-size, turned left about three quarters. Shaggy mustache and short beard, high pointed Persian cap. Right cheek and sideburns left rather rough; broken surface just behind suggests that head came from a high relief. The sunken cheeks, staring eyes and parted lips indicate a dead rather than a dying figure. Crystalline white marble. ADDENDA Scale ca. 20% smaller than figures of the so-called " Small Attalid Dedication" (see conjecture by Homer Thompson in Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 55). Movement and asymmetry of head suggest a statue-support: mirror image of S 2518 (ΡΡ 462). Not from relief. Probably Trajanic-Hadrianic. (AS 1998) | |
| Conservation Status: | Finished | |
| Context: | Beside dark-age wall set through South Stoa destruction fill. | |
| Negatives: | Leica, LIII-46 | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 0.17; W. 0.109; Th. 0.11 | |
| Date: | 13 March 1952 | |
| Section: | Τ | |
| Grid: | Τ:81/Κ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 22 (1953), p. 55, pl. 20 d. | |
| References: | Publication: Hesperia 22 (1953) Images (12) Card: S 1596 Card: S 1596 |
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