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Head of a Youth

Date

300–100 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta with clay slip

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Tarantine)

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

The head of a young man has a long neck and an elongated, oval face with well-defined features: under a low brow are small, regularly shaped eyes with sharply outlined eyelids, a straight nose, and a half-open mouth. The smooth hair is parted off-center and combed forward in finely defined tufts over the broad forehead. On the back of the neck, simple parallel grooves form broad, flattened locks and there is a circular hole where the neck attaches to the head. The man’s distinctive features suggest a languid expression emphasized by the half-open lips. This type is not common in the Tarentine area during the Hellenistic period.

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