Name:	Female Head
Picture:
Description:	From the east pediment of the Temple of Athena Alea, Tegea. Athens, National Museum. H. 0.30m. Female head from the east pediment. A calm and serene face, with strongly moulded features. In the ear-lobes, holes for hanging earrings. The hair is stylised, parted centrally and waving back beneath a fillet to be gathered into a long ponytail.
Date:	c. 350 B.C.
Discussion:	According to Pausanias, the sculptor Skopas designed the temple of Athena Alea. The east pediment depicted the battle between Telephos and Achilles. See Robertson 1981: 161-2; Stewart 1990: 59-60, 84-5, 182-5, 284-6.