Larger than lifesize veiled female head.
The hair is parted in the centre, like that of Athena, but the veil is an attribute which makes her likely to be Zeus’s wife, Hera
Berlin K.168
Bought from the Gipsformerei der Staatlichen Museen in 1964
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