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Small Marble Head of a Female
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Either very provincial Roman work or modern. Crudely carved female head with broad forehead, exaggerated cheek bones and flat chin. The lower lip projects and the open mouth is drilled. There is an assymetrical nose with right nostril larger than the left. The eyes are featureless, with oval raised areas under angular brows. Ears are featureless tabs projecting from hair locks swept back from cheeks. The hairdo rises symetrically from forehead, on either side of central part. The top and back of head are featureless.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Ex collection Professor Mason HAmmond Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature Departments of the Classics and of History Harvard University
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the daughters of Florence and Mason Hammond
Title: Small Marble Head of a Female
Description:
Either very provincial Roman work or modern.
Crudely carved female head with broad forehead, exaggerated cheek bones and flat chin.
The lower lip projects and the open mouth is drilled.
There is an assymetrical nose with right nostril larger than the left.
The eyes are featureless, with oval raised areas under angular brows.
Ears are featureless tabs projecting from hair locks swept back from cheeks.
The hairdo rises symetrically from forehead, on either side of central part.
The top and back of head are featureless.
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