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Portrait Head of a Young Roman Woman

Portrait Head of a Young Roman Woman

Culture: Roman

Date: c. AD 100 - 150
Medium: marble
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 1939.348.1
This figure of a young woman with delicate features and thin, well-shaped lips wears a stylized coiffeur with wavy locks, which are braided at the top and encircled by a plain band fillet (narrow ornamental strip of material for a woman’s hair). Similar figures have been discovered in Ostia.
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