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[Agora Object] S 2435: Portrait Bust of Female Figure

Intact. Perhaps unfinished. Very personalized portrait of a middle-aged woman. Long strands of hair, parted in middle, pulled down and back over ears. Hair in back bound in a thick coil. She wears a thick ... 3rd c. A.D.

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[Agora Object] S 2437: Portrait Bust of Female Figure

Complete except for chips. Mended from three pieces. Portrait of a woman, head turned to right. Long wavy hair combed up and back away from face, bound in a large coil at back. Lightly incised eyebrows, ... Last quarter of 2nd c. A.D.

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[Agora Object] L 3080: Lamp

Handle missing. Volutes at base of nozzle; filling hole well back by base of handle; upper body moulded; the bust of a draped woman with two torches. Underneath a rosette. Black glaze worn. Gray-buff clay ... 26 May 1937 ... Volutes at base of nozzle; filling hole well back by base of handle; upper body moulded; the bust of a draped woman with two torches. ... Type 47C of Agora collection.

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[Agora Object] T 909: Female Protome

Head and bust of a draped woman, crowned with heavy wreath of leaves. The wreath tied at the back by ribands whose square ends fall to the shoulder, beside long tresses of hair. There is an elleptical ... 9-15 May 1935 ... Head and bust of a draped woman, crowned with heavy wreath of leaves. The wreath tied at the back by ribands whose square ends fall to the shoulder, beside long tresses of hair. There is an elleptical hole at the back of the neck. White painted. Traces of pink color on drapery, and of yellow on hair.

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[Agora Object] P 21001 BIS: Red Figure Plate Fragment

Preserves part of floor and foot of a large plate with flat floor and high flaring rim. Heavy plain ring foot; underside moulded. On the floor near the center, a personage wearing a Persian cap, beneath ... 1 March 1933 ... Preserves part of floor and foot of a large plate with flat floor and high flaring rim. ... Above to left, part of the bust of a female figure appearing out of the background. At right, the arm of a woman, raised as if dancing; streamers fall from her hand.

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[Agora Object] S 362: Portrait Head of Female Figure

In fine preservation. A portrait of a middle aged woman (Faustina the Younger ?) with rather severe features and with hair parted in the center and drawn down in waves to a chignon in the back, below which ... Ca. 162-166 A.D ... A portrait of a middle aged woman (Faustina the Younger ?) with rather severe features and with hair parted in the center and drawn down in waves to a chignon in the back, below which escape several locks of hair. The bust has evidently never been finished: the lobe of the ear is uncut, the rough surface of the forehead is unpolished, the locks of the hair on the neck are without shape, the roughly worked surface of the skin in the region of the clavicles has not been cut down to its final level, and the points on cheek bones and chin have not been removed. ... Work of the 2nd half of the 2nd century A.D.