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A group of Greek and Roman terracotta heads a late Hellenistic marble head of a woman, and a fr...

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A group of Greek and Roman terracotta heads
Hellenistic-Roman Periods, circa 3rd Century B.C.-2nd Century A.D.
Including heads of women, their hair dressed in the chignon, one with a diadem, another wearing the himation, 2.5cm - 6.4cm high; a terracotta head of an African, 4cm high; four Romano-Egyptian terracottas, including two with elaborate coiffure, 6.9cm and 7.6cm high, one the head of Harpocrates with Sidelock of Youth, 5.8cm high, the fourth an ithyphallic figure, 6.5cm x 6cm; a late Hellenistic marble head of a woman, her hair drawn back into a chignon, 4cm high, and a fragmentary vessel handle,
painted with a bird, possibly Coptic, 8.2cm x 6.7cm (16)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021).
Two Hellenistic heads acquired at Charles Ede Ltd, London on the 23 July 1982 and the 20 September 1989.
Some of the terracotta heads acquired from Bernard C. Pickard, Dorset and John Cummings, Grantham Lincolnshire in the 1990s.
Hellenistic marble head: acquired Eternal Egypt, London, on the 21 November 1992.

Published:
Charles Ede Ltd, Antiquities 124, no.27b (terracotta head of a lady noted to be from Myrina in Lydia).

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