13 in. (33 cm.) high

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.
James (1913-1990) and Marilynn (1925-2019) Alsdorf, Chicago, acquired from the above, 1966.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 18 December 1996, lot 133.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 9 June 2004, lot 27.
Dr. Anton Pestalozzi (1915-2007), Zurich, acquired from the above; thence by decent to the current owner.

I. Jucker, Skulpturen der Antiken-Sammlung Ennetwies, Mainz am Rhein, 2006, Band 2, pp. 53-56, no. 13, pls. 23-24.
Arachne Online Database no. 1171828.

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This head is likely from the lid of a large Attic sarcophagus with a kline lid showing a reclining deceased couple. Preserved on the proper-left side of her chin are the remnants of her left hand that would have supported her head. As D.E.E. Kleiner informs (Roman Sculpture, p. 385), this type of lid became popular by the second and third centuries and is indebted to earlier kline funerary monuments of freedmen and Etruscan urns and sarcophagi. A related female portrait also with wavy, center-parted hair and heavy lids appears on the Balbinus Sarcophagus in Rome (see Kleiner, op. cit., fig. 356). Also related is the lid of sarcophagus in the Palazzo Nuovo, see N. Giustozzi, ed., The Capitoline Museums Guide.
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