CMA Exhibition Feature : Head of a Boy (about 530 BC)

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*Head of a Boy* (about 530 BC) Selinus, temple C Limestone Museo Archeologico Regionale "A. Salinas" di Palermo, inv. 3900 [Cat. no. 78]

Head of a Boy (about 530 BC)

This early 6th-century BC limestone head was probably originally part of the sculptural decoration of a Greek temple in ancient Selinus on the south coast of Sicily. The head shows a male youth with prominent eyes. His mouth is upturned into an "archaic smile," a convention of the period.

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