A Tarentine Terracotta Head of Athena or an Amazon, circa late 5th Century B.C.

her hair falling in long voluted locks over the temples, and surmounted by a high Phrygian helmet with applied neck-guard.

estate of Lilian Rojtman Berkman, acquired in the 1960s (Sotheby's, New York, December 9th, 2004, no. 381, illus.)

Triple Gallery, Bremgarten-Bern, Venus Im Zentrum - zwischen Idol und Madonna, exhibition catalogue, May 30th to June 29th, 2008, p. 11, no. 17, illus.

The applied neck guard is chipped at one corner, the applied visor above the forehead is missing except for a fragment above the proper left ear; there is a chip above the bridge of the nose visible in the photo, two other very minor chips on the helmet, and a large ancient chip on the front proper right side of the neck.
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For related examples see L. Quarles van Ufford, Les terres cuites siciliennes, p. 108, fig. 56, V. Poulsen, Catalogue des terres cuites grecques et romaines (Publications de la Glyptothèque NY Carlsberg, no. 2), Copenhagen, 1949, no. 21, pl. XII, and Antiken aus dem Akademischen Kunstmuseum Bonn, Düsseldorf, 1969, p. 65, no. 67m, fig. 47; also see Sotheby's, New York, June 12th, 2003, no. 45.