Red-Slip Head Vase

The front and back of this intact head vase were made separately. It is covered entirely in red slip. The head is that of a woman wearing a beaded necklace and a hair ornament with a large central rosette. Her face is broad; the eyebrows are rendered with short incised marks arranges in a herring-bone pattern. The irises and pupils are also incised; the mouth is slightly downturned. The hair is rendered as doughy striated locks falling straight down around the face and at various angles in the back, which is not as fully modeled as the front.