Head and Bust of a Woman
323-31 BCE
Description
Head and bust of a woman with a himation draped across her body and over the left shoulder. Hood with a pointed flap folded back on the top covers short, curly hair. She has small, delicate features and was broken off from her body in an irregular pattern. Back is modeled. (Central figure in photograph) Hard, gray clay with particles of mica; traces of white slip.
Dimensions
6.8 x 5.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 3/16 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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