R2 Cat. 248

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Roman? (Roman?)

The central head of the Hekateion has circular locks and a floral crown. The two lateral heads have ribbons in their hair which is parted in the center and falls in long locks on their shoulders. They wear turreted crowns. There are incised lines on ...

R2 Cat. 249

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st or 2nd C. AD (Roman)

The kouros, treated as a frontal relief, stands with both feet together and both arms down the sides. A strand of hair remains on his r. shoulder. The neck, chest, and abdomen are outlined in a sharp, linear fashion. The pubic hair is somewhat styliz...

R2 Cat. 250

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st half of 1st C. AD (Roman)

The idealized head of Augustus is turned slightly to his I. The sharp lines for eyebrows are prominent; the large eyes have no markings for pupil or iris. The nose is sharp and pointed, the mouth small. The face is attractive, but remarkably lacking ...

R2 Cat. 251

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 140 AD (Roman)

The following description is after İnan-Rosenbaum: The back of the head is hollow and has a large dowel hole in the center flanked by two oblong dowel holes. Two other dowel holes at ear lobe level are broken away. There are drill channels in the hai...

R2 Cat. 252

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 140 AD? (Antonine) (Roman)

The following description is taken from Sardis I, 147: "A colossal sculptured face, very well preserved . . . differs entirely from the similar heads found here; for, though in high relief, it was almost certainly never part of an entire head, but wa...

R2 Cat. 253

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Hellenistic)

The horseman, according to Buckler and Robinson, has a crescent behind his shoulders and therefore represents Mên (ibid.). He wears a short belted tunic with a few minimal diagonal folds. In his r. hand he may hold a short stick. The beginning of the...

R2 Cat. 254

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

AD 218-235 (Roman)

The portrait was worked for insertion into a statue body. The head is turned slightly to the l., and the woman looks upwards, as indicated by the drilled bean-shaped pupils which are placed high within the incised irises. The surfaces of the eyes are...

R2 Cat. 255

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

The bust of a woman is framed by an arched niche with a pilaster on each side, with simple capital and base. The head is turned slightly to the l. Her hair is parted in the middle and drawn behind her ears, where it falls in heavy locks. The drapery,...

R2 Cat. 256

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd or 3rd C. AD (Roman)

Cybele is enthroned and seated between two lions. The arched recess in which she sits suggests a shrine. She wears a high-girt chiton with a V-neck. The transparent cloth reveals her navel and the shape of her breasts. A heavier cloth himation is dra...

R2 Cat. 257

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd or early 3rd C. AD (Roman)

Roaring lion supports a moulded plinth with inscription:

The inscription may refer to erotes or satyrs who carry off jars and food. The piece may have stood against a wall, supporting a shelf.

R2 Cat. 258

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

(Hellenistic)

The head, which is turned slightly to the r., has a close-cropped mane which swings to the l. at the top. The horse's ears were erect. His lively face has small eyes beneath heavy bones, large and distended nostrils, and an open mouth with teeth show...

R2 Cat. 259

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Late Hellenistic (Roman)

In plan the statue is a not quite regular rectangle with a projection for the feet. Seen from the back, the lines of the base slant to the l. The goddess sits on the high-backed throne with her legs slightly to proper l. She wears a low polos without...

R2 Cat. 260

Sculpture, Sarcophagus

Marble, Stone

Late 2nd C. AD (Roman)

There are very carefully trimmed rectangular bosses (H. 0.10; W. 0.14) at the centers of both ends of the sarcophagus and two on each side. The pediment has a plain epistyle, fine dentils, a Lesbian cyma, and plain band. A gutter decorated with doubl...

R2 Cat. 261

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

early 6th C. BC (Lydian)

The archaic smooth-maned, recumbent lion is facing straight ahead. The head is large and round. The flanks and lower legs are nearly straight and vertical. The ruff and low mane are barely rising over the forehead; there is no trace of a back mane. T...

R2 Cat. 262

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

1st C. BC (Hellenistic)

The stele is rectangular with a tenon at the bottom for insertion into another block. Represented on the relief panel are a standing man and woman, three children, and a servant, and in the center background a flat pillar which probably carried an ep...

R2 Cat. 263

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd C. AD (Roman)

The three-headed Hekate has a common trunk and polos, and three arms. The faces are badly worn, but are flat, with prominent rounded chins. The hair, parted in the middle, falls in undifferentiated tresses to the shoulders. Breasts are clearly deline...

R2 Cat. 264

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

228 AD (Roman)

Set within a slight rectangular depression and standing on a narrow ledge is a standing woman, identified as Trophime in the inscription. In a frontal position, she raises her r. hand in prayer; the l. is at her side. She wears a chiton and a himatio...

R2 Cat. 265

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

4th C. AD? (Roman)

In a narrowly recessed rectangular panel stand two soldiers in military dress, their r. hands raised in folds, and they wear a triangular-shaped over-fold with incised parallel V-folds. They also wear boots. The two figures are frontal; there is no e...

R2 Cat. 266

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Date unascertainable (Roman)

The unfinished standing frontal male holds his r. arm, bent upwards at the elbow, away from his body. The l. arm is not clear but the vertical, undulating band along the l. side may be a club (therefore, figure thought to be Herakles). The head and h...

R2 Cat. 267

Sculpture

Limestone, Stone

3rd C. AD (Roman)

A horizontal diadem is worn across the top of the forehead. The hair is long and wavy, with ivy and grape bunches, crudely modeled, and with occasional drill holes. At the back the hair is flat. The inner corners of the eyes and pupils are drilled. T...

R2 Cat. 268

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd-3rd C. AD (Roman)

The figure appears to have been moving toward r. with r. arm raised, left lowered and probably held against her stomach, where there is a prominent break. A lock of hair lies on her l. shoulder, falling over the graceful wide neckline of the high-gir...

R2 Cat. 269

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Ca. 480-470 BC ()

The controversy over the “Borgia stele” is reviewed with bibliography by Friis-Johansen (Attic Grave-Reliefs, 125, n. 2) who notes that the provenance is not known with certainty. Finati (Supposto Ulisse, 3f., text, pl. 10) states that according to a...

R2 Cat. 270

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

Late Hellenistic or very early Roman Imperial (Hellenistic or Roman)

A horseman is shown riding to r. and approaching a round altar and tree. He wears a short tunic and a cloak attached with a brooch. His face is too damaged to determine whether or not he was bearded. A snake drinks from a patera (?) on the altar. A w...

R2 Cat. 271

Sculpture

Marble, Stone

2nd or 3rd C. AD (Roman)

The figure wears a girt tunic with a chlamys fastened over the r. shoulder and falling down to his feet in back. There is a circular pillar at the l. leg. He holds a caduceus with the lowered l. hand. On the front of the base there is a Greek inscrip...

R2 Cat. 272

Sculpture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

5th-4th C. BC? (Late Lydian (Persian))

"There is no evidence for any covering of the inscription; no remnants of stucco nor mortar revetment backing nor revetment pin holes were observed anywhere on the piers. On the evidence, the inscription was visible when reused" (A.R. Seager, by lett...