Head of Artemis
600–575 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Greece
- 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
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Artemis was the goddess of hunting. Her long straight nose, almond-shaped eyes, and "archaic smile" are very similar to those of Atalanta on the contemporary white-ground lekythos (1966.114)
