Female Figure

Description The figure of a poorly proportioned nude female against a tree is carved in the round. She is possibly Aphrodite. A drilled hole, apparently for attachment, passes through her mass of wavy hair. The figure has been broken in several parts and repaired.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/01/1975	Treatment	repaired
9/29/1983	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929