Female Head with Urn

Medium: Bronze

Geograhical Locations:

• Afghanistan
• Pakistan

Dates:4th century

Dimensions: 4 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (12.4 x 6.4 cm)

Collections:

• Asian Art

Accession Number: 2021.1.10

Catalogue Description:
Fragment, heavily corroded, of a figure of a female holding a vessel on her shoulder. The woman wears a headband or coronet. May be from the parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan where Hellenizing styles were common (a region known in the ancient period as Gandhara), or may have been made in the Mediterranean world.

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