1935.38.9: Grotesque Head of a "Slave"
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1935.38.9
- Title
- Grotesque Head of a "Slave"
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/298034
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1935.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels
- Accession Year
- 1935
- Object Number
- 1935.38.9
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Non-Greek style: Long face, pointed chin, high forehead, long, broad, curved nose, large mouth with curling lips and large, protruding ears. Hair, eyelids and brow structure indicated. (Lower rows of photo, second from left).
Hard, reddish-brown clay with very little mica.
Exhibition History
- Hellenistic Art: Objects from an Expanded World, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/03/2006 - 07/29/2007
Verification Level
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