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LOT 0657
Greek Terracotta Female Protome
EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
4 in. (126 grams, 10.3 cm).
Tongue-shaped in plan and hollow to the reverse; obverse with female bust in high-relief with row of curls on the brow emerging from beneath the palla head-covering. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
Cf. Van Rooijen, G., Goddesses of Akragas, a study of terracotta votive figurines from Sicily, Leiden, 2021, no.163, for similar.
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