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Unknown, Votive Head of a Female
Gift of Seymour Weintraub · Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content ProgramView original →
Unknown

Votive Head of a Female

350–300 B.C.

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
11 × 19.5 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-232006

Fragmentary head of a female wearing a diadem (or fillet), which visible at the part in her hair. Her hair is combed up and back in large locks that wrap around the diadem. Her lips are slightly parted. The neck, from just below the chin, is missing. The unarticulated back of the piece may represent a veil. Some white (pigment? encrustation?) occurs on the face. From the same mold generation as 75.AD.100.

Provenance

Gift of Seymour Weintraub

Registry history

  • 350–300 B.C. — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — sculpture

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