Head from a Female Figurine | Yale University Art Gallery

3rd millenium B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Marble, no apparent traces of pigment
Dimensions: 5.77 × 3.02 × 2.46 cm (2 1/4 × 1 3/16 × 1 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Ossorio, B.A. 1942
Accession Number: 2012.59.2
Culture: Greek, Cycladic
Period: 3rd millenium. B.C.
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Recieved as a gift on one of several trips to Greece in the 1960s/70s.

Bibliography

"Acquisitions," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2012.pdf (accessed December 21, 2012).

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figurines

women

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