Object Description
A fine Romano-Egyptian terracotta fragment portraying the head of a female. She possesses stylistic traits belonging to both Roman and Egyptian cultures, and is mounted on a custom-made stand. Her facial traits are anatomically detailed even if slightly worn due to ageing, displaying full lips, large eyes and a wide nose, featuring a hieratic expression. An elaborate two-tiered hairstyle adorns her head. Well defined curls frame her face and a wide braid-like hair formation sits atop of the curls, most of it now damaged. This head fragment would have originally belonged to a votive statuette produced in Alexandrian workshops, exported for the cult of Egyptian gods and divinities in the Mediterranean.
Date: Circa 1st Century BC-2nd Century AD