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Portrait of a woman, Hellenistic Corinth. Stephane diadem with a tendril motif [d/b]

Terracotta head of Aphrodite, half-life size. From the well by the Southeast Building, Corinth.
Greek work, Hellenistic period, ca 300 BCE
Arch. Museum of Corinth, Greece

“Bits of the gilding still adhere to the hair; the flesh parts were covered with a fine, heavy white slip. The head is very similar to that of a figurine found at Delphi.”

Info and photo from an article “Investigations at Corinth, 1947-1948” by Saul S. Weinberg https://www.jstor.org
In: Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Vol. 18, No. 1, The Thirty-Sixth Report of the American Excavations in the Athenian Agora (Jan. – Mar., 1949), pp. 148-157