1916.326: Female Head (Demeter?)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.326
- Title
- Female Head (Demeter?)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292494
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 6.3 x 4.7 cm (2 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward P. Bliss; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1916.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edward P. Bliss
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.326
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Female head, possibly of Demeter, with hair combed into rolls that frame her face. Peplos hangs from a high calathus. One earring is visible, most features are indistinct. Back is unmodeled and there is an indentation behind the polos. Hollow, broken off unevenly at neck. (Upper row, 2nd from right in photograph)
Soft, red clay with gray surface.
Verification Level
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