Cast Gallery catalogue number: C082

Head of a woman.

• Plaster cast: Height: 0.265m.
• Copy of a marble head.
• The head:
  • is known as the Argive Hera.
  • is a version of an original of about 430 BC.
  • is associated by some with the chryselephantine statue made by Polykleitos for the Temple of Hera at Argos.
  • was formerly in the Townley Collection.
  • is now in London, British Museum 1792.