CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 17-18 July 1985, lot 228.
with Mario Cicconetti, Toronto, 1986.

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Lot Essay

The goddess' hair is center parted, rolled back and bound in a top knot and a chignon at the back. Two small curls escape and hang delicately on the forehead and a single lock falls before each ear. The remains of a diadem atop the head recalls the mural-crowns worn by tutelary deities such as Fortuna, Hestia and Cybele. For a similar head at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see acc. no. 23.160.5.

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