4³⁄₄ in. (12 cm.) high

with Simone de Monbrison, Paris.
Dr. Anton Pestalozzi (1915-2007), Zurich, acquired from the above, 1978; thence by descent to the current owner.

I. Jucker, Skulpturen der Antiken-Sammlung Ennetwies, Mainz am Rhein, 1995, Band 1, pp. 11-12, no. 1, pl. 1.
Arachne Online Database no. 1091311.

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The flat proper-left side of this head and a comparatively long neck turned sharply to the left suggest that it originated from a votive relief. Jucker (op. cit., p. 12) posits that it likely depicts a goddess, perhaps Artemis, and that she would have been portrayed moving forward in a dynamic fashion. The hair, center-parted, bound in a fillet and tied in a chignon in the back is related to the so-called Artemis Colonna (see no. 103 in M.B. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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