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A Roman Marble Head of a Woman or Goddess, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- A Roman Marble Head of a Woman or Goddess
- MARBLE
- Height 22 cm.
turned to her left, with parted lips, her wavy hair centrally parted, bound in a broad fillet above the forehead, and pulled up under and over the fillet above the ears; back of head missing and once separately carved, nose restored.
Provenance
Austrian private collection, acquired prior to the mid-1960s
Catalogue Note
Cf. a herm head in Copenhagen: M. Moltesen, Catalogue Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Imperial Rome, vol. 3, 2005, p. 401f., no. 217.