The woman or youg lady - kore - is wearing an himation on the back of her head. Sometimes the terracotta head was put on top of a lifesize terracotta body.
   Some encrustations, a part missing on the lower right corner, else good condition. The hole on the back is usual, and linked to the moulding process.

   “A large proportion of the votive gifts found in Etruscan sanctuaries consist of mould-made terracota heads dedicated to the local divinity by individual
   worshippers. The fact that the heads are mould-made discounts the possibility of portraiture. However, a modeling tool is sometimes used to give a head
   individual touches before firing… They were made in early Hellenistic Period.” (Galerie Faustus, 1976 Antiquités: une introduction.)

   "Etruscan votive heads appear in the sanctuaries of the kourotrophic goddess in the last quarter of the 6th century B.C. The votive heads reflect the same
   stylistic characteristics that occur in mold made antefixes and they are probably made in the same workshops. Such votive heads may have served as thank
   offerings to the goddess for medical treatment." (Etruscan Art Virtual Museum)

 
   Material : Reddish-brown Terracotta, with encrustations
   Provenance : ex.German art market - ex. German private collection, collected around 1910
   Dimensions : H. : 26 cm
   Origin : Etruscan workshops
   Period : IV - III c.B.C.

        Ref. : r-130

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