SculptureGreek4th-1st century BCE
Veiled Female Head
323-31 BCE
Description
Female head tilted slightly to the right and covered by peplos, which is gathered in almost imperceptible folds over the forehead and wound across lower right side of her face, covering chin. (Middle row, center in image.) Soft, orange-pink clay.
Dimensions
4.5 x 2.4 cm (1 3/4 x 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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