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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Galss portrait head...
Galss portrait head of a woman
Artist : Anonyme

Modèles : Junon
Héra

Date : approx. between 100 and 150

Material : Casted glass
Acquisition : Fletcher Fund (1959)
Dynastie des Antonins
Item 78 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Sculpture (Tête)

Vitrine : V06

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

This portrait, in glass imitating lapis-lazuli, was made by pressing the glass into an open mold. It probably represents the goodness Juno (Greek Hera) and must have been set up either in a public temple or a rich private sanctuary.
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