CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.

細節

AN EAST ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Wearing pendant earrings and elaborate headdress, her hair drawn back in waves with a draped veil covering the rear and a thick foliate wreath above, the ribbon falling behind, surmounted by a tall crown carved with central arcade showing enthroned goddess, flanked by niches with standing figures and an eagle(?), her wide staring eyes with drilled pupils, remains of stucco
15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high

來源

Acquired by the present owner's father in the 1980s.

注意事項

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拍品專文

For a Palmyrene relief showing the Gad or Tyche of Palmyra, cf. M. A. R. Colledge, The Art of Palmyra, London, 1976, p. 227, pl 146. For a similar Syrian alabaster female head of a goddess, cf. Sotheby's New York, 17 December 1997, lot 203.