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LOT 0608
Roman Limestone Head of a Woman
4TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
3 1/8 in. (345 grams, 80 mm).
Carved in the round with collar-length flowing hair; part of a frieze or group.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of Mr S.A., Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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