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LATE HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
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A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
LATE HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Her head turned to her left, wearing a crescentic diadem, her wavy center-parted hair deeply drilled, pulled back over her ears and knotted in a low chignon, with tendrils running down the left side of her neck, her small, almond-shaped eyes under lightly-incised arching brows, the eyelids delineated and the inner-canthi deeply drilled, with a narrow nose, full parted lips and a pronounced chin, preserving black pigment in the eyes
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high
LATE HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Her head turned to her left, wearing a crescentic diadem, her wavy center-parted hair deeply drilled, pulled back over her ears and knotted in a low chignon, with tendrils running down the left side of her neck, her small, almond-shaped eyes under lightly-incised arching brows, the eyelids delineated and the inner-canthi deeply drilled, with a narrow nose, full parted lips and a pronounced chin, preserving black pigment in the eyes
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Ralph W. Stephan, Washington, D.C., 1960s.
Catharina Baart Biddle, Washington, D.C.
Catharina Baart Biddle, Washington, D.C.
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