Statuette Fragment
B9365
From: Syria | Northern Syria
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B9365 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Seleucid (uncertain) | Parthian (uncertain) |
Provenience | Syria | Northern Syria |
Period | Seleucid Period (uncertain) | Parthian Period (uncertain) |
Date Made | 325-0 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Alabaster |
Iconography | Cybele |
Description | CBS Register: head of a female statue in white marble, peculiar head-dress Romano: "Frontal female head wearing a tall crown with vertical depressions to right and left of center and a raised arch in the front. The hair is parted slightly off-center and drawn to the sides in in thick tresses, with long strands falling on the neck on the right side. On the cheeks on both sides is a "kiss-curl" High forehead, deep-set eyes with thickened lids with shallow drilling at inner corners, finely shaped straight nose, small mouth with pursed lips. At back of neck is a protruding remnant of garment, hair or attachment surface. Small drill hole in the bottom of neck for modern mounting." |
Height | 8.3 cm |
Width | 4.5 cm |
Depth | 5 cm |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition Purchase, 1900 |
Other Number | P264734 - CDLI Number |
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