Marble head from the figure of a woman
Unknown
2700–2500 BCE · Marble · Greek and Roman Art
The traces of eyes, in extremely low relief, indicate that they originally were rendered with pigment. The painted marble weathered less rapidly than the adjoining unpainted surfaces.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 2700–2500 BCE
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Cycladic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Christos G. Bastis, 1964
