If you’re looking for a unique antique, Phoenix Ancient Art with Hicham Aboutaam and Ali Aboutaam is certainly the place to look. One of their most recent additions is the Greek Head of a goddess from the Greek World in the Late 5th century B.C. This head is complete and is carved from a block of fine-grained white marble. The nose was added in plaster and the upper skull was completed with other materials.
The indications of the diadem or crown with or without a veil or helmet indicate that this figure wasn’t a mortal. The mythological figure could have been Hera, Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite or Artemis. It may even have been Athena, if the head were protected by a helmet.
The style of the statue certainly fixes the date to the Classical period, between the last decades of the 5th or the early 4th century B.C. During this period, the Greek world was shaken by the fratricidal Peloponnesian War.
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