Colossal female head with turreted crown

The woman portrayed in this sculpture is wearing a so-called mural (or turreted) crown, a crown resembling a city wall. In classical antiquity, it was an emblem of tutelary deities who watched over a city.这座雕塑所塑造的女性头戴被称为壁形冠（mural crown，亦称城垛冠）的冠冕——一种外形酷似城墙的冠饰。在古典古代，它是守护城邦的守护神的象征标识。