| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of human body |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Measures | h. 26.00, w. 16.00, th. 11.5 |
| Decoration |
| Figurative subject | Human figure | | Gender | Woman | | Part of human body | Head |
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| Notes on support and decorations | A large female head carved from yellow calcite-alabaster with deep oval eye-sockets and incised eyebrows, both originally inlaid, a pointed triangular nose with incised lines indicating nostrils, a shallowly carved small pouting mouth, stylised ears positioned high on the head, a stepped hairline incised above the temples, and a long slender neck. The face is delicately modelled and highly polished. The head ends at the hairline and the poll is roughly keyed.
The head was originally set in an inscribed base or displayed inside a niche.
The reverse is flat, split along the natural bedding plane of the stone, exposing a poorer quality iron rich layer, which was deliberately left at the back. |
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