Object: S 3497
Inventory Number: S 3497
Section Number: ΒΖ 745
Excavation Number: handler:2001:f:321
Title: Funerary Stele with Female Head
Category: Sculpture
Description: Single fragment preserving top edge, front and back surface of a funerary stele; broken off below and at sides. Surface of relief worn and flaking in spots.
Head of a young woman facing front, with right hand raised and three fingers resting on cheek; the fourth finger partly broken. Fleshy lips, prominent chin, large eyes outlined with thin ridge. Fragment of thick drapery on left shoulder. Ear-length hair.
Back surface roughly finished. Possibly late 4th century B.C.
Context: Wall F, north of Wall E.
Notebook Page: 4975
Storage: North Basement-Sculpture, Block 29/8
Dimensions: P.H. 0.335; P.W. 0.280; Th. 0.133, (plaque) 0.077
Material: Marble
Date Of Discovery: 31 July 2001
Section: ΒΖ
Grid: J/11-1/14
Elevation: 54.307m.
Longitude: 23.722566
Latitude: 37.976689
Lot: Lot ΒΖ 1254
Basket: handler:2001:b:95
Bibliography: Camp and Mauzy (2009), pp. 128, 131, 134, figs. 136, 139, 141.
 Hesperia 76 (2007), p. 632, fig. 3.
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2009.07.0003