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1903.11.0248 :: relief

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Terracotta relief. Male head.

"What especially serves to give the male heads a more lifelike appearance is that the eyes are set more deeply, and that prominence has given to the rims of the eyelies and the brows. This is clearly apparent from the type reproduced here, Pl. X, 2 and Pl. XI, 7. The head, which is adorned with moustaches and a beard, is set low on the shoulders. A jewel is suspended on a string round the neck. As the pate is bald, it is evidently an old man that is here represented. Each of the two examples included in the Hedin collection has a round hole in the crown of the head, communicating with the cavity in the interior of the figure." Montell 1936, p. 183.

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