Close in style to the Baltimore Painter
ca. 325–300 BCE

Frontal head of a woman

Female heads decorate vases of many shapes. They are particularly suited to a circular format, as evidenced also by the heads of goddesses, nymphs, and other mythological ladies on the coinage of South Italian and Sicilian cities such as Metapontum, Thurii, Terina, and Syracuse.

Credit: The MET Museum