Lot 99
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A MARBLE HEAD OF A HELLENISTIC RULER
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A MARBLE HEAD OF A HELLENISTIC RULER

HELLENISTIC, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

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A MARBLE HEAD OF A HELLENISTIC RULER
HELLENISTIC, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Wearing crested helmet adorned with two large curled ram's horns, traces of another curled horn below helmet on one side, with two large cheek-pieces framing the face and meeting below the chin, the youthful ruler is shown with furrowed brow, parted lips, his eyes recessed for inlay, the head flat at the back, mounted
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED: Images, no. 25.

Cf. L. Budde and R. Nicholls, A Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge 1964, no. 88, pl. 30 for a similar head with helmet.

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