A Greek marble bust of a goddess
Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C.
Depicted with her head inclined to the left, her oval face with sensitively carved features, her deep-set lidded eyes with original inlaid marble eyes remaining, her browline merging with the bridge of her nose, her small mouth with full lips, a thin fillet in her wavy hair, centrally-parted and secured at the back in a chignon, a small drilled hole in the top of her head possibly for insertion of a separately-made stephane or attribute, her slender neck with naturalistic contours flaring outward toward the chest, her left shoulder slightly dipped, the edges of her drapery carved in relief around the base of her neck, the deep 'v' of her chest ending for insertion into a draped body, a notch in the left side of the bust presumably for such purpose, 14in (35.6cm) high, mounted