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

This head of a youth is likely to have come from a deep relief as evidenced by the attachment break at the back of his head. The soft modelling of the features with the thickly-lidded almond-shaped eyes and full mouth recall the sensitively-modelled figures found on Greek grave naiskoi multifigured scenes, for example a larger head in the Getty Villa, see J. Grossman, Greek Funerary Sculpture, Los Angeles, 2001, p. 54, no. 19, with a similar sharp upper eye lids and brows. This head has a visible assymetry which would suggest that he would have been seen in three-quarters view on the right of the composition and perhaps would have been viewed from below as some large scale naiskoi would have been placed on terraces high above the street level of the viewer.