Fragment of a votive protome: Head of a goddess wearing a polos
Fragment of a votive protome: Head of a goddess wearing a polos
Place of OriginGreek, S. Italy (Magna Graecia, Sicily?)
Dateabout 500 BCE
DimensionsH: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); W: 4 in. (10.1 cm); Depth: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
MediumEarthenware.
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of the Popplestone Family
Object number
2006.82
Not on View
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Published ReferencesJerome M. Eisenberg, "Winter 2002 Antiquities Sales," Minerva vol. 14, no. 2 (2003) 42. Note: This object is neither illustrated nor mentioned in this review, but there is a brief account of the ownership of the 112 lots sold at Christie's as probably "unpublicised long-term loans from Mr. and Mrs. Fujita" to the Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum and "all the property of the recently deceased dealer Takuhiko Fujita," who was the primary source of the Museum. Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 12 December 2002, p. 22, lot 25 (one of three greek terracotta heads) Erika Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities. Mainz on Rhine, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1982, 197, no 131.- Decorative Arts
5th century BCE?
Perhaps second century
Late second to early third century
Perhaps late first or second century
Late 19th century
Late 2nd or early 3rd century CE
Workshop of the Floating Handles
first half CE 1st century
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