Stephane type diadem with tendril motif.
One can only see the central part of the tiara, the rest are hidden under the hair.
“a terracotta woman’s head painted with a diadem and pendants applied separately, also in terracotta. The sculpture, of excellent quality and therefore attributable to the high social status of the deceased, is part of the landscape of Tarantine terracotta plastic, which receives and reinterprets with an autonomous and original style the stimuli coming from Greece, where already from the archaic era it was common to emphasize the rank of the deceased with the construction of sepulchral monuments on the surface, naìskoi in the form of small temples or sèmata in the form of a column or stele. The head is part of an all-round clay funerary statue, of those that were usually placed inside the naìskoi , depicted on contemporary red-figure vases. The recovered head represents an important document of the Tarantine plastic, to whose context also refers the typology of the jewels of the famous local goldsmiths; the work is attributable to the central years of the 4th century BCE. The head recalls the one preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Taranto. Both products of local workshops, they are characterized by the minute and calligraphic treatment of the details, especially in the hairstyle, typical of the Athenian environment, and in the precious ornaments, in contrast with the softness of the facial features.”
at the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria, from Taranto, Magna Graecia, 4th C BCE
