Lot 28
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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A CHILD

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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A CHILD
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
With the hair worn in an elaborate plait across the top of the head, and with delicate curls on either side of the face--7 1/2 in.(18.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. no. 121 in Inan and Rosenbaum, Roman and Early Byzantine Portrait Sculpture in Asia Minor, Oxford, 1966; and no. 85, Vermeule and Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1990

Similar sculptures of children with plaited hair have been identified as Harpocrates.