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APC Image: AK 1024: Six Archaic terracotta heads. Top left: Very fine head, has "Ionic" features, slanting eyes, and sharply prominent chin. Top centre and top right: not published. Bottom left: A fine head shows the abolition of stephane and elaborate curling coiffure. The hair, divided in the center in two soft, simple masses, frames the upper part of the face with an agreeable projection. The eyes and mouth are smaller; the archaic smile has become straighter, and the modelling of the cheeks, while not elaborate, is more detailed and accurate. First half of the fifth century B.C. Bottom centre: Larger fragmentary head worked in a truly sculptural style. The modelling is excellent and shows a sparing though effective use of the stylus in small details. Probably first century B.C. Bottom right: An extraordinary exaggeration of the type of a head with hair contained in a kirchief. The features are broad and carefully worked, and the hair falls in easy, flowing waves from a part in the center. It is painstakingly represented, too, between the edges of the kirchief on top of the incredibly long knot at the back. Object Description: | | Six Archaic terracotta heads. Top left: Very fine head, has "Ionic" features, slanting eyes, and sharply prominent chin. Top centre and top right: not published. Bottom left: A fine head shows the abolition of stephane and elaborate curling coiffure. The hair, divided in the center in two soft, simple masses, frames the upper part of the face with an agreeable projection. The eyes and mouth are smaller; the archaic smile has become straighter, and the modelling of the cheeks, while not elaborate, is more detailed and accurate. First half of the fifth century B.C. Bottom centre: Larger fragmentary head worked in a truly sculptural style. The modelling is excellent and shows a sparing though effective use of the stylus in small details. Probably first century B.C. Bottom right: An extraordinary exaggeration of the type of a head with hair contained in a kirchief. The features are broad and carefully worked, and the hair falls in easy, flowing waves from a part in the center. It is painstakingly represented, too, between the edges of the kirchief on top of the incredibly long knot at the back. | Negative Number: | | AK 1024 | Category: | | Terracottas | Subcategory: | | Head | Site: | | Acropolis, North Slope | City: | | Athens | Region: | | Attica | Country: | | Greece | Date: | | 1934 | Format: | | Glass-plate | Dimensions: | | 18 X 13 | Bibliography: | | Hesperia 4 (1935), pp. 203, 208, 212, figs. 9e, 12b, 12c, 15c. | Repository: | | ASCSA ARCHIVES | Collection Title: | | Archaeological Photographic Collection | Series: | | AK | Image Width: | | 2142 | Image Height: | | 1560 |
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