Lot 98
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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF ALEXANDER HELIOS
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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF ALEXANDER HELIOS

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF ALEXANDER HELIOS
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The youthful fleshy face framed by curling hair, wearing a fillet, with drill holes to take a radiate headdress, small restoration to mouth, mounted
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 88 and 344.

This head is similar to one in Copenhagen (inv. no. 574). It may have been reused as a fountain head at a later period as a hole was drilled through the mouth.

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