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Head of a Youth
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Faience or painted plaster head of a youth wearing a heavily plaited wig. Head is broken off at neck. All facial features indicated, with left eye badly damaged. Face is broad and plump, chin is squared-off.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
From the collection of William A. Koshland
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of William A. Koshland
Title: Head of a Youth
Description:
Faience or painted plaster head of a youth wearing a heavily plaited wig.
Head is broken off at neck.
All facial features indicated, with left eye badly damaged.
Face is broad and plump, chin is squared-off.
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