Head of a woman

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Inventory number

Ακρ. 12442

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Coroplastic

Period

Classical Period

Date

Around 460 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.056 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 28, Νο 6

Description
Bibliography

The face is oval shaped, the eyes large with pronounced eyelids and pupils rendered with colour. On her head she wears a ribbon and sakkos which leaves the hair surrounding the forehead uncovered. Her neck is long with a smooth and flat underside, possibly for the insertion of the head in a figurine's body or a bust. White slip and traces of black and pink colour are preserved all over the head’s surface.

Chaplain, J., Dumont, A., Les Céramiques de la Grèce propre II, Paris, 1881, σελ. 231, εικ. IV
Casson, S., Brooke, D., Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum. Sculpture and Architectural Fragments, with a section upon the Terracottas, II, Cambridge, 1921, σελ. 328, 385, αρ.κατ. 583
Poulsen, V.H., Der strenge Stil: Studien zur Geschichte der griechischen Plastik, 480-450, Acta Archaeologica 8, Copenhagen, 1937, σελ. 60-61, εικ. 40