Object: S 2070
Inventory Number: S 2070
Section Number: ΠΑ 258
Title: Draped Colossal Figure Fragments
Category: Sculpture
Description: Two fragments of a colossal draped female figure.
a) The lower part, wearing long closed peplos; cloak at back; looped folds of overfall preserved on left side. Weight rests on right leg; left relaxed forward. Feet broken away. Much battered, a bit burned and covered with lime.
b) Upper part of torso. Back broken away entirely; traces on front of curve of peplos. Oval cutting at top for head; square cutting on left side for arm.
Fine work. Apparently a cult statue.
Pentelic marble.
Context: Lying on a bit of Wall J, under Byzantine Wall V.
Notebook Page: 1033-1034
Storage: On Site-East of Church of Holy Apostles
Negatives: Leica, 82-210, 82-211, 82-212
Dimensions: P.H. a) 1.60, b) 1.00
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 28 May 1959
Section: ΠΑ
Grid: Q 16
Bibliography: Baumer (1997), no. G 13, pp. 49 ff., 52, 53, 54, 109, n. 329, pl. 19.1-4.
 Hesperia 29 (1960), pp. 339, 341 (noted), 371-373, pl. 81 c.
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