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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.453
Title
Head
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
head, sculpture
Date
2500 BCE-2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Cyclades
Period
Cycladic period
Culture
Cycladic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/289194

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Dolomitic marble
Dimensions
actual: 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.453
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
6 Cycladic

Head

The body and part of the neck are missing. The surface is worn and lightly incrusted.

This fragment from a statuette has flat contours and a pyramidal nose in relief. The head is nearly rectangular. The mouth is indicated by a short groove, and the eyes by narrow depressions. The neck is set back from the face, giving the head a shallow chin.




The closest parallels for this head are to be found in two marble idols from Aghios Kosmas, which combine the amorphous and the anthropomorphic Cycladic types. Idols of this general type are known from both the Greek mainland and the Cyclades (Mylonas, 1959, xv, fig. 163).

Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer

Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 26, no. 203
  • Patricia Getz-Preziosi, "Cycladic Art in the Fogg and Farland Collections", American Journal of Archaeology (1966), 70, pp. 107-108, pl. 28, figs. 6-8
  • 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. 21, no. 6

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961

Verification Level

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