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Head of a Youth

Date

400–350 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta with clay slip

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Tarantine)

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

The full face, tilting slightly to the left, features large eyes with sharply outlined eyelids, a nose with pierced nostrils, fleshy, half-open lips, and thick ears set forward. Short, wavy locks frame the forehead and are parted in the middle; at the back of the head, tousled locks are arranged on either side of a central part. The hairstyle suggests that a band or wreath may have crowned the head. There is a circular hole above the left ear and another small hole above the upper lip.

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