1920.44.113: Head and Bust of a Woman
Sculpture
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.113
- Title
- Head and Bust of a Woman
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Tanagra (Boeotia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292403
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, traces of white slip
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 5.5 cm (2 11/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.113
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Head and bust of a woman with a himation draped across her body and over the left shoulder. Hood with a pointed flap folded back on the top covers short, curly hair. She has small, delicate features and was broken off from her body in an irregular pattern. Back is modeled. (Central figure in photograph)
Hard, gray clay with particles of mica; traces of white slip.
Verification Level
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