Female Head
323-31 BCE
Description
Female head, slightly inclined to the right. Hair parted sharply down the center and drawn back in knot at back of neck. Back of hair broken off and repaired. Rounded features, earrings, broken off at neck. Mounted on a square, green stone base. Soft, dark red clay; remains of white slip.
Dimensions
3.7 x 2.2 cm (1 7/16 x 7/8 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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