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| Name: |
Female
Head |
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| Description: |
From
the east pediment of the Temple of Athena Alea, Tegea. Athens, National
Museum. H. 0.30m. Female head from the east pediment. A calm and serene
face, with strongly moulded features. In the ear-lobes, holes for
hanging earrings. The hair is stylised, parted centrally and waving
back beneath a fillet to be gathered into a long ponytail. |
| Date: |
c. 350 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
According
to Pausanias, the sculptor Skopas designed the temple of Athena Alea.
The east pediment depicted the battle between Telephos and Achilles.
See Robertson 1981: 161-2; Stewart 1990: 59-60, 84-5, 182-5, 284-6. |
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