Inventory Number: | BI 167 | |
Section Number: | ΠΘ 19 | |
Title: | Ivory Statuette | |
Category: | Bone & Ivory | |
Description: | Statuette of Muse (?) A female figure wearing a thin, high-girt chiton and over her lap and knees, an himation. She sits left, on a bench or rock, but faces front. On her left arm she holds a large lyre; her right hand is raised to strike it. Her hair is drawn into a large knot at the back of her head. In the back of her seat is a small round hole (as on BI 166); another in the bottom; in this last are the remains of some substance used for attachment. | |
Context: | Cistern A. | |
Handling: | A tissue and ethafoam support mount within a (non-archival) plastic box was constructed for storage. A stable RH would be preferable. with care -- object will continue to crack without a stable environment | |
Negatives: | Leica, color slide, 5-222, 5-223, II-42 | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.05; W. (bottom) 0.033; Th. (bottom) 0.017 | |
Material: | Ivory | |
Date: | 24 May 1935 | |
Section: | ΠΘ | |
Elevation: | -4.7--4.7m. | |
Masl: | -4.7m. | |
Deposit: | D 10:1 | |
Bibliography: | Gkikaki (2019), p. 129, n. 15. | |
Hesperia 87 (2018), p. 580, n. 106. | ||
AgoraPicBk 3 (1959), no. 62. | ||
Hesperia 5 (1936), p. 18, fig. 15. | ||
AJA 39 (1935), p. 445, fig. 8, no. 4. | ||
References: | Publications (4) Images (7) Deposit: D 10:1 Card: BI 167 Card: BI 167 |