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Mysia. Cyzicus. c. 460-450 BC. EL Hecte, 2.75g. Obv: Head of young woman facing left, hair covered by sakkos, truncation dotted. Below, tunny fish left. Rx: Quadripartite incuse square. Fritze 106, pl. III, 25. Cf. Roma Num. 3, 31 March 2012, lot 263. Extremely beautiful archaic female head. Good VF.
This is a very rare issue whose beauty rivals the contemporary Arethusa heads of the Syracusan series. This head of a young woman with chastely covered hair might have made the contemporary Greeks think of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, since chastity did not contradict allure, but sometimes even enhanced it.
This is a very rare issue whose beauty rivals the contemporary Arethusa heads of the Syracusan series. This head of a young woman with chastely covered hair might have made the contemporary Greeks think of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, since chastity did not contradict allure, but sometimes even enhanced it.