1960.516: Female Head
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.516
- Title
- Female Head
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 5th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Northern Greece
- Period
- Classical period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/290836
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta; red clay with white slip and buff paint
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 7.1 cm (2 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- From Olynthus
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.516
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Wavy hair with flat hat. Head broken off below the chin.
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. 34, no. 281
Verification Level
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