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Female Head
late 4th-mid 2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)
coarse, white, crystalline, translucent marble
(Ancient Greece )
(Ancient Greece )
This head as a hole in the top. The back of the head is split off and above there is an iron nail inserted in the neck. Pink pigments on the proper right side of the face and the neck may be the remains of a flesh-colored pigment (polychromy) but this needs further study.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
23.160