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Votive Head of a Youth
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Hollow terracotta votive head and neck of a youth. The head is frontal, showing a young man or child with short hair. The brow, eyes, nose, ears, mouth and chin are modeled naturalistically. A mantle covers the top and back of the head. The head is in good condition, with some chips around the edge of the mantle, a chipped chin, broken nose, and gouge on the right side of the face.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (before 1970-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Votive Head of a Youth
Description:
Hollow terracotta votive head and neck of a youth.
The head is frontal, showing a young man or child with short hair.
The brow, eyes, nose, ears, mouth and chin are modeled naturalistically.
A mantle covers the top and back of the head.
The head is in good condition, with some chips around the edge of the mantle, a chipped chin, broken nose, and gouge on the right side of the face.
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