Female head from a relief

Classification

relief

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 10.1 cm; width: 7.8 cm

Period

Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)

Material

marble analysis ; Pentelic marble

Iconography

female head ; mantle

Production place

Attica

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Farkas, Jenő Collection

Inventory

66.140.A

Hyp-6869

Marble analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the fragment was made of Pentelic marble. Click here for the detailed results.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.