A woman's limestone bust wears a tall headdress, large wheel-shaped coils over each ear and heavy layered necklaces. Found in 1897 at La Alcudia near Elche, it is the best-known work of Iberian sculpture, made by the pre-Roman people of eastern Spain, who absorbed Greek and Punic influences. A cavity in the back suggests it once served as a funerary urn.
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The hollow eyes once held inlays of glass paste, and faint traces of the original paint survive on the stone.
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