| Scope and Content |
Card base with three black and white photographs and four black and white illustrations attached, labelled a, d, b, c, f, e, g. The number 319 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Praesos" is written in ink in the lower right corner. "The head is 26 in. high" is written in the upper right corner. All the images except g (1936/02/02/19/07) have beside them later annotations in pencil, giving bibliographic references. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Terracottas from the Altar Hill site. a. A male head, heroic or divine, modelled, not cast: it may be as late as the first part of the fifth century. The projection of the chin and its deep depression are unusual. The ears are conventional and, like the falling locks, reminiscent of wood carving. b. Lion, drawing: perhaps as early as the sixth century. c. Lion, photograph: probably mid-fifth century. The leaflike incised work of the body contrasts with the smoothness of the mask: a finely designed head of spirit and originality. d. Female figure (priestess?). e, f. Male figures. The male legs with apron (f) give some idea of the lost body of the 'Young God'. g. Hellenistic building (the 'Almond Tree House'), on the First (Classical) Acropolis. Its dimensions and masonry are large for a private house; probably a public building was subsequently turned into a farm and oil factory." |
