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In 1878 Adolf Furtwängler was travelling in Greece with his colleagues Lolling and Löschke, and came across a small sculptural head of a child offered for sale in Attica near the old Artemis sanctuary at Brauron. It had apparently been found there shortly before. However, as Furtwängler wrote in a letter to his parents on 14 June 1882, unfortunately he could not afford the head at the time. But most surprisingly, and luckily, he spotted the very same head four years later in Athens, and at a lower price, and bought it.1 The head was presented in an article dedicated to Heinrich Brunn in 1893.2 Despite Furtwängler’s apparent personal appreciation of the head, he put it up for sale, and it was bought by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1894 (Figs. 1–4).3