Face mould

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Inventory number

AF 646

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Workshop equipment

Period

Archaic Period

Date

6th cent. BC

Dimensions

Diameter: 0.03 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 2, No 3

Description
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Mould for the production of a clay face, found in 1937 on the north slope of the Acropolis. It is mended from two fragments. The hair and facial characteristics can be made out. Most possibly it was used for the production of protomes that were adjusted to small flat clay plaques.

Broneer, O., «Excavations on the North Slope of the Acropolis, 1937», Hesperia 7, 1938, σελ. 187, 188, εικ. 25