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Head of a Female Wearing a Sakkos Headdress
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Sakkos and hair over forehead are delicately hand re-touched. There are traces of white slip in the grooves on the left side of the sakkos. There is a modern perforation in the break to hold a mounting pin.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Purchased from G. Max Bernheimer Bernheimer Antique Arts Cambridge MA.
From Stuart Thorne by bequest.
ex. coll. Mrs.Thorne who had obtained them in Greece many years before.
Mrs. Thorne was closely involved with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from the 1930's onwards.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Marian H. Phinney Fund
Title: Head of a Female Wearing a Sakkos Headdress
Description:
Sakkos and hair over forehead are delicately hand re-touched.
There are traces of white slip in the grooves on the left side of the sakkos.
There is a modern perforation in the break to hold a mounting pin.
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