Head of a Goddess

Description This head is a fragment of one of the finest existing replicas of Phidias' statue known as the "Hera Borghese." The preeminent sculptor of Athens in the High Classical period, Phidias was also the creator of the famous gold and ivory statue of "Athena Parthenos" and oversaw the elaborate sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, the temple of Athena built on the highest part of the Acropolis at Athens.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
	Technical Report	x-ray diffraction; other
6/24/1940	Treatment	other
6/26/1961	Treatment	cleaned
7/06/1970	Treatment	cleaned
9/21/1998	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [marble no. 29], 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902