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| Inventory Number: | S 476 | |
| Section Number: | Β 609 | |
| Title: | Head of Female Figure | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Description: | Broken off at the neck; the nose broken, and a piece missing from the top of the head; otherwise well preserved, save for a few chips, and the remains of cement from the wall. Modern dowel hole in neck: cf. S 473. The head, slightly under life-size, is tipped slightly to the figure's right. The hair, worn in short curls brushed back from the brow, seems to have been held in place by a fillet of another material; a groove for this fillet, but no trace of metal, remains. The surface of the hair is left very rough, as if for color; the flesh is carefully polished. Although in scale and in style this head corresponds very closely to the statue S 473 (Β 571), near which it was found, there is no direct join, and the neck muscles make it seem unlikely that statue and head belong together. For a temporary union, see large photo, pl. no. 4-179. Pentelic marble. | |
| Context: | In packing behind heavy Roman wall. | |
| Notebook Page: | 679 | |
| Negatives: | Leica, 4-195, 4-196 | |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.197; W. 0.156; Th. 0.164 | |
| Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
| Date: | 19 April 1934 | |
| Section: | Β | |
| Grid: | Β:24/ΛΒ | |
| Bibliography: | Hesperia 85 (2016), p. 583, n. 12; p. 614, n. 79. | |
| Museum Guide (2014), p. 79. | ||
| Hesperia 81 (2012), pp. 298-299, 302, 306, 308, 311-315, 317, 322-323, no. 7, n. 87, fig. 36. | ||
| Guide (1976), p. 293. | ||
| Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 168, n. 1. | ||
| Is Similar To: | Agora:Object:S 473 | |
| References: | Publications (4) Images (46) Card: S 476 |
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