A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS

ROMAN, 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
ROMAN, 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Her wavy hair parted in the centre and swept backwards, held by a floral stephane with foliate terminals, six intermittent double 'rosettes' carved in relief decorating the stephane, her eyelids and tear ducts strongly defined, tendrils of hair falling down behind each ear, with three attachment holes drilled into the unworked back of her head, nose and lips damaged, on stone mount
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in the early part of this century.

Lot Essay

This sensitively modelled head reflects the Hellenistic influence of the 'schools' in Asia Minor where the earlier spirit and tradition of classical sculpture lived on in the Roman period. The head would have originally fitted into a socketed body.

More from Antiquities

View All