Sculpture4th-1st century BCE
Female Head
325-31 BCE
Description
Full face with small features. Nose bent slightly at tip. Hair in melon-type coiffure. Broken into several pieces and repaired, broken off at neck. Mounted on a small, square, green stand. Soft, reddish brown clay; powdery grayish surface; traces of white slip.
Dimensions
3.7 x 2.3 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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