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Roman artists also drew on Greek artistic styles for creating original works, such as the head of a youth, which exhibits features, including the eclectic and elaborate hairstyle, that are associated with many Archaic and early Classical Greek statues. The woman seen here wears a peplos, a style of clothing worn by Greek women that went out of fashion in the fifth century BCE. It likely could only have been known to the Roman sculptor through an earlier Greek prototype.\n","remarks":"MED_22-T2-2_CLA.pdf – Day One Cataloguing (group chat for y1962-132, y1991-43, 2016-374)"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Given to the Museum by John Elliott in 1991","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":236368,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97973","isprimary":0,"rank":10,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236372,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97981","isprimary":0,"rank":15,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236373,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97978","isprimary":0,"rank":14,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236374,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97977","isprimary":0,"rank":13,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236375,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97975","isprimary":0,"rank":12,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236376,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97974","isprimary":0,"rank":11,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236377,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97972","isprimary":0,"rank":9,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236378,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97971","isprimary":0,"rank":6,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236379,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97970","isprimary":0,"rank":7,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236380,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97969","isprimary":0,"rank":8,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236381,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97966","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236382,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97965","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236383,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97961","isprimary":0,"rank":3,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236384,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97959","isprimary":0,"rank":5,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":236385,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMANX22_97956","isprimary":0,"rank":4,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"J. 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