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Pan Playing the Pipes

Pan Playing the Pipes

Greek

High relief against flat back. Figure is in side profile and broken off below elbows. Bearded, balding Pan playing two pipes. Round face and thick nose. Pipes are slightly broken. (Bottom row, far left, in photograph) Hard, pale brown clay; traces of white slip.

Terracotta, traces of white slip

Hellenistic period

Sculpture