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LOT 0041
Archaic Cypriot Head of a Male Votary
6TH CENTURY B.C.
5 7/8 in. (381 grams total, 15 cm high including stand).
Fragmentary head from a votive limestone figure of a male with long hair arranged inside a plain diadem above his forehead; the face with almond-shaped eyes sculpted in relief, arched eyebrows, and exhibiting the ‘archaic smile’; mounted on a display block.
ProvenanceEx Professor Hans Dahn (1919-2019), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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