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

With her spade-shaped forehead, dreamy visage and full bow-shaped lips, this head recalls the example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, colloquially known as "The Maiden from Chios," due to the location of its purported discovery (see M.B. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, p. 40, no. 56). Both heads were carved for insertion into a separately-made statue. Like the Boston head, this example conveys "the aspects of remote yet human ideal beauty, of a slightly mystic sort, imparted by this remainder" of a complete statue (op. cit.).