Head of a Maiden with ""Lampadion"" Hairstyle

3rd-2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)

13.2 cm 29.8 cm 14.4 cm

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The early Hellenistic-period writer Dicaearchus (active about 320-300 BCE), a pupil of Aristotle's, remarked that women described this hairstyle with topknot as the "lampadion", or little torch.

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21642
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[Found in Rome]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1931; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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