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Polychrome head of a woman, Taranto, 4th C BCE [d/b]

Stephane type diadem with tendril motif.
One can only see the central part of the tiara, the rest are hidden under the hair.

Female head in polychrome terracotta
Taranto, Magna Graecia | 4th century B.C.E
In the MArTA >> website

“Produced from a mold, the woman’s head has become the symbol of the MArTA. She has a headdress embellished by a tiara, a typical element of female jewellery in the Greek world, and is amazing for the beauty of her features, emphasized by the traces of colour and, at one time, by precious earrings. This is probably what has been preserved of a fictile funerary statue, portraying the deceased as a heroine, to whom the tiara conferred a status of outstanding importance.”

Photo: the MArTA >> website
Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images
UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 2003: Polychrome terracotta female head. Greek civilisation. Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Archaeological Museum) (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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