Name:	Head from the Argive Heraion
Picture:
Description:	From a metope on the Heraion, Argos. Athens, National Museum. H. 0.18m. Male head, turning upwards and to the right, wearing an expression of suffering or pleading. Large, staring eyes to suggest pathos, mouth pursed in a gasp or uttering a cry. Hair short and curly, waving from the forehead to the crown. Badly weathered.
Date:	c. 420 B.C.
Discussion:	The metopes apparently showed an Amazonomachy. Polykleitos, himself an Argive, produced the chryselephantine statue of Hera for the sanctuary, and may have had some hand in designing the rest of the temple. See Stewart 1990: 264-5; 444-7 (ills.).