Over Life-size Marble Head of a Goddess
2nd century BC
30-7-1
The detached, serene expression, frontal gaze, and over life-size scale of
this head, which in other respects recalls the style of the Messenian sculptor
Damophon, all suggest that it may have belonged to an actual cult statue.
Too little survives of the complete statue to be totally certain of its original
purpose or to suggest which goddess is specifically being represented.
H. 42.0; Dia. 31.5 cm. UM neg. 140075.