Bust on an unknown female with shaved head wrapped in headdress. Vestel Virgins, virgin acolytes at a Temple of Cassandra, or Lacedaemonian maidens all shaved their heads. Testa incognita con cepelli rasi. Copperplate engraving by Etienne Picart after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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