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Agrigento: Terracotta bust of female divinity (early 5th c. BC)

Agrigento: terracotta bust of divinity (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)

This terracotta bust of a female divinity (perhaps Persephone) is dated on the basis of its delicate face and hair modelling to the beginning of the fifth century BC. The hairstyle with complicated waves and locks creates a crest-like crown around the brow, descending on both sides of the neck.
The figure wears a large crown with a hole in the center for the insertion of an overlying crown, possibly in gold. There are many traces of the original plaster surface used a a base for painted colors.

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	This terracotta bust of a female divinity (perhaps Persephone) is dated on the basis of its delicate face and hair modelling to the beginning of the fifth century BC. The hairstyle with complicated waves and locks creates a crest-like crown around the brow, descending on both sides of the neck. The figure wears a large crown with a hole in the center for the insertion of an overlying crown, possibly in gold. There are many traces of the original plaster surface used a a base for painted colors.
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Agrigento: Terracotta bust of female divinity (early 5th c. BC)

Agrigento: terracotta bust of divinity (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004)

This terracotta bust of a female divinity (perhaps Persephone) is dated on the basis of its delicate face and hair modelling to the beginning of the fifth century BC. The hairstyle with complicated waves and locks creates a crest-like crown around the brow, descending on both sides of the neck.

The figure wears a large crown with a hole in the center for the insertion of an overlying crown, possibly in gold. There are many traces of the original plaster surface used a a base for painted colors.

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