Sculpture

Object Number:

65-26-2

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Greek

Provenience:

Mediterranean

Locus:

provenience unknown

Date Made:

399-300 BC (or later)

Early Date:

399

Late Date:

300

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Marble (Stone)

Technique:

Carved

Iconography:

Aphrodite

Description:

Marble head of Aphrodite. Part of a figure of a very small scale carved in the round. Wavy hair, parted in the middle. An incised line to indicate a ribbon encircling the head and holding the hair in place. Above the nape of the neck a bun. At front, above the ribbon, the hair is pulled up to form a broad puff. Face abraded except for left cheek and right eye. Fine grained, somewhat crystalline white marble, wheathered.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. James A. Hays

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Romano, Irene B. 2006. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 60:35

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