LATE CLASSICAL TO EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.

The small scale and relatively unfinished proper right side of this head suggest that it originates from an Attic funerary monument which, late in their development, rendered figures nearly in the round (see, for example, the funerary naiskos of Prokleides, no. 3.460 in C.W. Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones). For a similar example, see the funerary monument of Philokydis, now in Pasadena at the Norton Simon Museum, no. 3.357 in Clairmont, op. cit. The lack of preserved attributes, however, make precise identification impossible and the head may instead represent a deity. Compare the head in New York said to be of Zeus, pl. 117 in G.M.A. Richter, Catalogue of the Greek Sculptures.