CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUNG GIRL
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.
Gazing forward with youthful features, oval face with arched brows over finely lidded eyes, small mouth dimpled at the corners, her hair dressed in melon coiffure, combed in parallel rows and running from the forehead to the back of the head, and gathered in a plaited coiled bun, mounted
9½ in. (24 cm.) high

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Formerly in an American private collection, 1950s.

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The melon coiffure became popular during the Hellenistic Period, and continued to be worn by young girls into at least the early 3rd Century A.D. According to La Rocco (p. 73 in D.E.E. Kleiner and S. B. Matheson, (eds.), I Claudia, Women in Ancient Rome, New Haven, 1996), the coiffure indicates that the subject was not yet married.