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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GREEK TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A GODDESS
SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
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A GREEK TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A GODDESS
SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Mold-made, her wavy center-parted hair bound in a fillet, wispy tendrils falling along the forehead, wearing a veil over the top of her head and disk earrings with long tapering pendants, with a spade-shaped forehead, slender nose and lidded eyes beneath modelled brows, her lips parted revealing teeth, a circular exhaust on the back
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Mold-made, her wavy center-parted hair bound in a fillet, wispy tendrils falling along the forehead, wearing a veil over the top of her head and disk earrings with long tapering pendants, with a spade-shaped forehead, slender nose and lidded eyes beneath modelled brows, her lips parted revealing teeth, a circular exhaust on the back
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
Provenance
with T. Fujita, 1970s.
Literature
E. Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Mainz, 1982, no. 151.