Terracotta Head of a Singing Reveler in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Title: Head of a Male Banqueter

Artist/Maker: Unknown

Culture: Greek (South Italian, Tarantine)

Place: Tarentum (Taras), South Italy, Europe (Place created)

Date: about 400–300 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta

Object Number: 82.AD.93.9

Dimensions: 17.5 × 14.5 × 12.6 cm (6 7/8 × 5 11/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

Alternate Titles: Head of a Banqueter (Display Title)

The oval face tilts slightly to the right while the open mouth leaves the teeth visible. The small eyes have downturned outer corners and thickened eyelids; the nose is straight. The figure wears ornamental headgear added to the head and a wreath, probably with three rosettes, distinctive to the Tarentine area. The head can be assigned to the type of the young, beardless banqueter represented in the act of singing, found in Tarentine production from the end of the fifth to the first half of the fourth centuries B.C.


Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/14439/unknown-maker-head-of-a-male-banqueter-greek-south-italian-tarantine-about-400-300-bc