A MAGNA-GRAECIA TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD

MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A MAGNA-GRAECIA TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD
MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.
With hair framing her face and pulled back from a central parting, clearly defined features, unmodelled back with vent hole, repaired, from Locri; and a terracotta female votive head wearing disc-shaped earrings, her himation drawn up over her head, circa 500 B.C.
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) and 5½ in. (14 cm.) high respectively (2)

Lot Essay

Item one: cf. C. E. Vafopoulou-Richardson, Ancient Greek Terracottas, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1991, p. 15, no. 16, for similar. Label on reverse with handwritten collection number.
Item two: ink collection number on reverse.

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