Harvard Art Museums
Small Head
- Date
- 600-800 CE
- Medium
- Terracotta, mold-made
- Culture
- Teotihuacan
- Department
- Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
Heart-shaped head with wrinkled, emaciated face and deeply set horizontal, almond shaped eyes and pursed mouth; nose broken. Top of head characterized by furrow between rounded forms, greyish-brown clay. Grooves outlining brows and radiating away from and below right eye suggesting an old and emaciated personage.
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