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Marble Head of a Goddess at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Title
Marble head of a goddess


Artist
Unknown Greek sculptor


Date
4th Century B.C. Said to be from Taranto in southern Italy


Medium
Marble


Dimensions
Unknown


Accession #
10.142.1


Credit
Rogers Fund, 1910



In antiquity, heads were often carved separately from the statues for which they were intended. The head was made with a convex tenon that could be set into a specially prepared cavity in the statue. The juncture was concealed by a line of drapery. This finely carved head of a young woman must represent a goddess because of its colossal size. Persephone (the daughter of Demeter and wife of Hades, the god of the underworld) and Hygeia (the daughter of Asklepios, the god of medicine) were often represented with hair separated into thick coils pulled back to the top of the head and tied loosely in a knot. Such a knot was probably affixed to this head using three large holes that remain in the back.
(source; accompanied text in museum, metropolitan museum of art)
 

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