An Etruscan Terracotta Head of a Woman, circa late 5th/4th Century B.C.

from a votive figure, wearing an applied necklace of globular beads and applied tear-shaped earrings decorated with bosses and stippling, her portrait-like face with slightly smiling mouth and broad cheekbones, her wavy hair falling in symmetrically arranged luxuriant curls, the cloak lifted as a veil over her head.

Collection of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966)
Professor Donald P. Hansen (1932-2007), New York

as shown, tip of nose chipped, surface somewhat weathered, veil abraded and chipped, remains of dark slip or incrustation over most of hair and neck
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Cf. J. Chamay, ed., L'art des peuples italiques, Geneva, 1993, p. 265, no. 165., for a related example.