Sculpture
65-26-2
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 65-26-2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Greek |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Locus | provenience unknown |
Date Made | 399-300 BCE (or later) |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Marble (Stone) |
Technique | Carved |
Iconography | Aphrodite |
Description | Marble head of Aphrodite. Part of a figure of a very small scale carved in the round. Wavy hair, parted in the middle. An incised line to indicate a ribbon encircling the head and holding the hair in place. Above the nape of the neck a bun. At front, above the ribbon, the hair is pulled up to form a broad puff. Face abraded except for left cheek and right eye. Fine grained, somewhat crystalline white marble, wheathered. |
Height | 8.2 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Frances Lukens Hays, Alan W. Lukens II and Anne Lukens Saunders, 1965 |
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