© Ashmolean Museum
A Head of a Woman
Artist: Greek
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 4th Century BC
Materials: pentelic marble
Dimensions: 34 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £7,500 (Total: £30,000)
Vendor: Professor Bernard Ashmole
Review number: 2939 (1981)
Provenance:
At Marbury Hall, near Northwich, Cheshire until it came into the possession of Professor Bernard Ashmole.
Description:
The work of an Athenian craftsman of the 4th century BC. It was once part of a full-length figure of a woman from a naiskos, a funerary group of two or three figures in attitudes of grief or resignation.
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