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Fragmentary portrait of a woman

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Although difficult to characterize because of its fragmentary nature, the portrait depicts a young woman. The woman looks forward with large brown eyes that are delicately rimmed with thick lashes. The figure's black-brown hair is parted in the center and pulled back from her face with visible rows of herring-bone pattern painted in thick, dark pigment to suggest plaited rows.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1946. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter
Title: Fragmentary portrait of a woman
Description:
Although difficult to characterize because of its fragmentary nature, the portrait depicts a young woman.
The woman looks forward with large brown eyes that are delicately rimmed with thick lashes.
The figure's black-brown hair is parted in the center and pulled back from her face with visible rows of herring-bone pattern painted in thick, dark pigment to suggest plaited rows.

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