Harvard Art Museums
Small Head of a Monkey or Lion
- Date
- 3rd-1st century BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta, mold made
- Culture
- Hellenistic
- Department
- Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
Head of monkey or lion with broad nose and prominent eyes and short, diagonally projecting ears. Brownish red clay with tan slip. Appears to have been made from a worn mold, possibly part of a seated or reclining statuette. Hellenistic?
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