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LOT 0566
Greek Terracotta Votive Head
4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
1 3/4 in. (36 grams, 44 mm).
Modelled in the round, female head with hair drawn back in a chignon, tilted angle to the neck. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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