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Female votive head
Cypriote
Cypro-Archaic Period
560–540 B.C.
Findspot: Egypt, Naukratis
Medium/Technique
Limestone
Dimensions
2.4 cm (15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Egypt Exploration Fund by subscription
Accession Number86.161
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 414.
DescriptionThis small head of a woman appears to come from a statuette of a votive. She wears a headcloth to be classed generally in the Egyptian style.
The surfaces are somewhat worn and battered, with considerable effects of incrustation.
The surfaces are somewhat worn and battered, with considerable effects of incrustation.
ProvenanceFrom Naukratis. 1885: excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund, assigned to the EEF by the Egyptian government; October 28, 1885: voted to the MFA at EEF general meeting; sent over February 1886. (Accession date: 1886).