Woman's Head with Crown
500s BCE
- Medium
- terracotta
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.8 cm (6 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Greek, Sicily(?)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This terracotta sculpture depicts a woman with a wide headdress that is partly broken off. Her face is rendered in an Archaic style, with her mouth and eyes in low relief and her lips lifting upward in a serene smile. Originally, details such as the eyes and decoration on the headdress would probably have been painted on the surface of the sculpture.
