Cast Gallery catalogue number: A001b

Head of a woman.

• Plaster cast: Height: 40cm.
• Copy of a fragment of a limestone relief.
• The fragment:
  • is from an original relief of about 630 BC.
  • was almost certainly part of a frieze which decorated a building.
  • was found on the Mycenae Acropolis, in the Temple of Athena, in 1886.
  • is now in Athens, National Museum, 2869.