marble head of a woman

Marble

Roman, Imperial period

1st century A.D.

Copy of a Hellenistic statue of the 3rd or 4th century B.C.

 

Coiffures with corkscrew curls were fashionable in Egypt and Cyrene during the Ptolemaic period. This head must have represented an important woman, as several other copies are known today.

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

NYC

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