Strong, Eugénie: Catalogue of the Greek & Roman antiques in the possession of the right honourable Lord Melchett at Melchet Court and 35 Lowndes Square (Oxford [u.a.], 1928)

The four following terra-cottas, all from S. Italy and Sicily, were, I believe, in the Hertz
Collection at Rome.

38 HEAD OF GODDESS Plate XXXVIII

H. 112m.

Female head with hair parted below a diadem or stepkane, and combed to the sides in long
strands forming a heavy roll. Long slit eyes, full smiling mouth drawn up at corners, full
oval. The back of the head is flat.
Sicilian Greek of early fifth century B.C.

39 HEAD OF GODDESS (?) Plate XXXVIII

H. 102 m. A little plaster at base.

The hair, bound by a fillet, is heavily waved over the forehead and drawn back in thick

masses over the ears.

Archaic Greek, early fifth century B.C.

40 HEAD OF APOLLO Plate XXXVIII

H. 084. Restored: base of neck.

The type is that of the so-called Lycian Apollo of Praxiteles—with the front hair gathered
into a plait and taken back from the centre of the forehead.
Ordinary work of fourth century B.C.

41 FEMALE HEAD WITH THICK WREATH Plate XXXVIII

H. 102 m.

The high coiffure, composed of richly waved bandeaux of hair, confined by a diadem,
above which is a thick wreath ; the large leaves over the ears, and the broad fillets falling
down at the back are all characteristics of a certain class of Tarentine terra-cottas of the
fourth century, and the facial forms are those of the same Tarentine group.

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