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Head of Goddess. Antique marble bust. Hermitage Museum #223641363
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The head of the goddess. Material - marble. Roman work, early 1st c. AD after the Greek original of the 420s BC. Provenance in 1850 from the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg. Purchased by Ivan Shuvalov in Rome in 1771. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The eyes of the sculpture were made of gemstones or glass paste; lost
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