WHA_309JN

Head from a colossal statue of a woman wearing a sakko (cap) Parian marble found to the north west of the Mausoleum, about 350 BC The head comes from a statue of similar size to the colossal female figure displayed in this room (the-so-called Artemisia, Sculpture (100). This portrait may represent one of the female members of the Hekatomnid dynasty. The series of Dynastic portraits probably stood between the Ionic columns of the peristyle.

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Head from a colossal statue of a woman wearing a sakko (cap) Parian marble found to the north west of the Mausoleum, about 350 BC The head comes from a statue of similar size to the colossal female figure displayed in this room (the-so-called Artemisia, Sculpture (100). This portrait may represent one of the female members of the Hekatomnid dynasty. The series of Dynastic portraits probably stood between the Ionic columns of the peristyle.