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Head of a Young Woman from a Grave Naiskos   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Head of a Young Woman from a Grave Naiskos
Object type portrait head
object_type QS:P31,Q56055257
Description

Originally part of a funerary monument, this head of a girl displays facial features and a hairstyle typical of Athenian sculpture in the late 300s B.C. The girl's oval face, small, bow-shaped mouth, and deep-set, thick-lidded eyes derive from features made popular in the preceding decades in the work of the sculptor Praxiteles. She wears her hair parted in rows, braided and pulled back, a style called a melon coiffure by scholars. On the girl's neck, there are two widely spaced fleshy rings with an indentation between them, so-called "Venus rings." This trait was probably a status symbol, indicating the health and good nutrition provided by wealth. This head was made separately and inserted into a body carved in relief on the back slab of a naiskos, or small three-sided funerary monument. The flat surfaces on the back of the head rested against the slab. They show that the girl was posed in a three-quarter frontal view.

— J. Paul Getty Museum / CC-BY-4.0 , in:  http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/6497/
Date circa 320 BC
Medium marble
medium QS:P186,Q40861
Dimensions 34.3 × 15.6 × 22.2 cm (13.5 × 6.1 × 8.7 in)
institution QS:P195,Q180401
Current location
room 207 (Women and Children in Antiquity)
Accession number
56.AA.19
Place of creation Athens, Greece

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The Getty Center, Object 6497

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