Marble head of a woman

Unknown

1st century CE · Marble, Pentelic · Greek and Roman Art

Copy of a Hellenistic statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C. Coiffures with corkscrew curls were fashionable in Egypt and Cyrene during the Ptolemaic period. This head must have represented an important person, as several other copies are known today. This copy was once part of the collection of antiquities formed in Rome during the early seventeenth century by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Marble, Pentelic

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903