1960.454: Head
SculptureIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.454
- 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/289233
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Marble
- Dimensions
- actual: 3.6 cm (1 7/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.454
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990
5 Cycladic
Head
The nose, small and turning toward the rectangular, is in low relief and is worn.
This fragment from a statuette has flat contours and a pyramidal nose in relief. The head, which is pear-shaped, probably belonged to a female figure of normal, developed type. Traces of the eyes and mouth are visible in raking light.
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. 202
- Patricia Getz-Preziosi, "Cycladic Art in the Fogg and Farland Collections", American Journal of Archaeology (1966), 70, p. 110, pls. 30-31, figs. 17-19
- 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. 5
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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