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Copy of a Hellenistic statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.
Coiffures with corkscrew curls were fashionable in Egypt and Cyrene during the Ptolemaic period. This head must have represented an important person, as several other copies are known today. This copy was once part of the collection of antiquities formed in Rome during the early seventeenth century by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani.
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Title: Marble head of a woman
Period: Imperial
Date: 1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble, Pentelic
Dimensions: H. 16 in. (40.6 cm)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903
Object Number: 03.12.2
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