
Francesca Hickin
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Provenance:
Private collection, New Mexico, acquired prior to 1991.
The nymph Io was a priestess of Hera, who Zeus took as a lover; in a bid to protect her from Hera's wild jealousy, he changed her into a beautiful white heifer. For a closely-related antefix in the British Museum see C. Johns, Cattle, History, Myth, Art, London, 2011, p. 70, acc. no. 1884.1011.7.