Cypriot Terracotta Head of a Woman Wearing a Stephane in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Terracotta head of a woman wearing a stephane

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; mold-made

Culture: Cypriot

Period: Cypro-Classical II

Date: ca. 400–310 B.C.

Dimensions: H. 13 3/4 in. (35 cm)

Classification: Terracottas

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.1459

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

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This head belongs to a large terracotta statue, which may have been set up as a votive in a sanctuary. Other examples, now in Berlin and Paris, are attributed to the area near Paphos.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.