Harvard Art Museums > 1949.47.142: Head of a Woman in the Late Daedalic, Pre-Ionian Style Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Woman in the Late Daedalic, Pre-Ionian Style , 1949.47.142,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 02, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291338. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1949.47.142 Title Head of a Woman in the Late Daedalic, Pre-Ionian Style Classification Sculpture Work Type head, sculpture Date c. 550 BCE-540 BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus Period Archaic period Culture Cypriot Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/291338 Physical Descriptions Medium Limestone Dimensions actual: 23.5 x 14 x 14 cm (9 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949. Probably purchased at one of three sales of Brummer's merchandise held in 1949. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund Accession Year 1949 Object Number 1949.47.142 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 19909 Cypriote Head of a Woman in the Late Daedalic, Pre-Ionian Style The face is greatly damaged; likewise but less so, the turbaned headdress and (lower) front of the neck. The head came from a statue. The stone and the parallels with turbaned terracottas from the temple site at Arsos suggest that the head came from this area (Porphyrios Dikaios, note in object file, January 1953). Her cloth turban is drawn tightly over the rolls of hair around the crown of her head, revealing strings of stylized curls around the forehead, and loops of hair and braids under it. The cloth falls vertically and simply, without wrinkles, down the back of the head and over the neck, like a British soldier’s or a French legionnaire’s dustcloth in the period around 1900. What remains of the face shows that she had the large, bulging eyeballs of the Daedalic heads and the hint of an Archaic smile. Although a simpler cloth headdress is worn and the face is thinner, this head, especially in the eyes, relates to the upper part of a limestone statue in the Cyprus Museum, from Arsos (Dikaios, 1961, p. 96, pl. XIX, fig. I). The rolled-turban headdress merged with the Ionian face is a stylistic combination that occurs around 540—530 B.C. (Pryce, 1931, pp. 102-103, Type 30). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 23, no. 9 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
