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| Stone Head (about 500 BC) Paestum, southern urban sanctuary Marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum, inv. 133150 [Cat. no. 5] |
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Stone Head (about 500 BC)
This rare, complete marble head of an unidentified individual was once inserted into a figure made of a different material, perhaps wood, stone or terracotta.Statues of this type, called acroliths, are characteristic of Western Greece because marble as a sculptural material was scarce in the region. Two other incomplete heads recovered from the same sanctuary have been associated with the present example; of these two more fragmented versions, one may represent the goddess Athena.
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