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Small Head
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Heart-shaped head with wrinkled, emaciated face and deeply set horizontal, almond shaped eyes and pursed mouth; nose broken. Top of head characterized by furrow between rounded forms, greyish-brown clay. Grooves outlining brows and radiating away from and below right eye suggesting an old and emaciated personage.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of W.C. Burriss Young
Title: Small Head
Description:
Heart-shaped head with wrinkled, emaciated face and deeply set horizontal, almond shaped eyes and pursed mouth; nose broken.
Top of head characterized by furrow between rounded forms, greyish-brown clay.
Grooves outlining brows and radiating away from and below right eye suggesting an old and emaciated personage.
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