Dramatic Marble Female Portrait
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Feb 1964
name: label: Collector
content: W. Partridge
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. William A. Burden
notes: label: Notes
content: Marble head of a woman, nose broken, entwined metal projecting from bottom. No provenience.
label: Notes
content: 2nd Cent. BC. Head of a Woman. Hair and facial expression almost identical (Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. Rizzoli International Publications, NY. 1996, p. 425, cat. 335). In antiquity, heads were often carved separately from the statues for which they were intended. The heads were made with a convex tenon that could be set into a specially prepared cavity in the statue. The juncture was concealed by a line of drapery. Because of its colossal size, this finely carved example must represent a goddess. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Greek and Roman Art. URL: www.metmuseum.org.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Greece, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Greek
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 253493
label: USNM Number
content: A439869-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 6.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.71 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 11.2 cm