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| Inventory Number: | S 3347 | |
| Section Number: | ΒΕ 67 | |
| Title: | Herm Head | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Broken at neck. Back of head, including part of one ear; appears to have been cut to form flat surface. Tip of beard and nose missing. Very worn. Heavy encrustation on hair above forehead, nothing on re-cut back. Long hair combed forward and ending in curls on front; fillet of three flat ridges around top of head; mustache and stylized beard. Rounded protruding eyes, deep set in corners. Ear unusually large. White marble. | |
| Context: | Area IV, fill below floor of Byzantine Room 3, Layer XI, Basket 43. | |
| Handling: | on display Always lift head off first and move separately from the base; ON NO ACCOUNT try to move the head by lifting it from the dowel... | |
| Notebook Page: | 1301 | |
| Negatives: | 81-46-11, 86-46-12, 81-46-13, 81-46-14, 81-46-15, 86-46-16, color slide | |
| Dimensions: | P.H. 0.31; P.W. 0.205; P.Th. 0.17 | |
| Material: | Marble | |
| Date: | 7 July 1981 | |
| Section: | ΒΕ | |
| Grid: | J/17-3/11 | |
| Basket: | 43 | |
| Bibliography: | Kousser (2015), p. 82, nn. 5, 30, 33. | |
| Museum Guide (2014), p. 154, fig. 93. | ||
| Guide (2010), p. 83, fig. 50. | ||
| Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 33, fig. 34. | ||
| AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 16, fig.13. | ||
| AgoraPicBk 16 (2003), p. 39, fig. 60. | ||
| Camp (1986), p. 74. | ||
| Hesperia 53 (1984), p. 42, pl. 10 a, b. | ||
| References: | Publications (5) Images (79) Card: S 3347 |
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