Lot Essay
For related portraits from Cyrene, with similar flanges framing the neck, see nos. 271 and 273 in Walker and Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt.
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CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Lifesized, his closely-cropped hair summarily detailed, full on the sides above his pronounced ears, his heavy brow furrowed over convex unarticulated eyes, with thick lids, a strong aquiline nose, lightly-etched naso-labial folds, thin pursed lips, and a pronounced chin, his beard and mustache neatly groomed, the neck with projecting flanges on either side
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Lifesized, his closely-cropped hair summarily detailed, full on the sides above his pronounced ears, his heavy brow furrowed over convex unarticulated eyes, with thick lids, a strong aquiline nose, lightly-etched naso-labial folds, thin pursed lips, and a pronounced chin, his beard and mustache neatly groomed, the neck with projecting flanges on either side
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Ralph W. Stephan, Washington, D.C., 1960s.
Catharina Baart Biddle, Washington, D.C.
Catharina Baart Biddle, Washington, D.C.
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