TILE FRAGMENT, part of a face with curly fair hair, with shadowed flesh, pink, yellow, amber brown and white canes - 3.0cm. high; and a frontal face fragment with short brushed up fair hair, yellow, brown, pink, blue and red canes - 1.5 x 3.0cm., circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. (2)
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TILE FRAGMENT, part of a face with curly fair hair, with shadowed flesh, pink, yellow, amber brown and white canes - 3.0cm. high; and a frontal face fragment with short brushed up fair hair, yellow, brown, pink, blue and red canes - 1.5 x 3.0cm., circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. (2)
Lot Essay
Cf.Glass of the Caesars, no. 11, for a fragment of opus sectile panel reputedly found in the Faiyum, Egypt, dated probably second half of the 4th Century A.D.