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Source Description
The goddess of love and beauty wears her wavy hair in a topknot. This small head likely was once part of a statuette showing the goddess nude or partially nude.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
3909
label
Head of Venus
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
3909
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Head of Venus
description
The goddess of love and beauty wears her wavy hair in a topknot. This small head likely was once part of a statuette showing the goddess nude or partially nude.
provenance
Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th-2nd century BCE (Hellenistic)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
statues
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
Source extras
cul
Greek
med
marble
creator_ids
6256
collection_ids
GRC
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
7d7431ecba462b4a