SculptureGreek4th-3rd century BCE

Head of a Woman, from a Votive Relief

330-280 BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Marble from the Greek mainland

Culture

Greek

Period

Hellenistic period

Century

4th-3rd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

actual: 7.6 cm (3 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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