Una testa di tipo acrolitico da Venafro

An over life-size female head is one of the most valuable sculpture of the collection of antiquities in the Archaeological Museum of Venafro. Almost certainly it belongs to a cult statue, of which we ignore both the origin and the circumstances of the discovery. In this paper we propose a new earlier chronology of the head, in the first quarter of the 3rd century BC, by comparison with the sculptural Attic and insular production. We suppose the presence of the head in Venafro as the result of looting of the Samnite tribes that occured in the Greek cities and that were influenced by the Greek culture in Campania.