Head of a bearded man’s statue smaller than life size found in 1888 to the southwest of the Parthenon.
The head believed to come from the statue of a rider turns slightly to the left. The eyes are almond-shaped, the eye-lids heavy and his lips corners slightly upturned giving thus the impression of a reserved smile. The hair arranged in two rows of curling locks over the forehead fall in wavy masses on the back. The roughly worked upper surface of the head and the drills, one big and two smaller ones, opened on the top of the head may suggest that the figure wore a helmet. The remaining head surface retains vivid traces of oxydised colours.
It has been suggested that the head comes from the same statue as the fragment from the arm of a warrior (Ακρ. 314).
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