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ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF

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ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
Of a woman's head, her hair in the grip of an extended hand, perhaps from a battle sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy or the death of Pentheus at the hands of the Maenads--11 1/2 in.(28.75 cm) high

Lot Essay

For an Amazonomachy, cf. the left side of a sarcophagus at Harvard, no. 121 in Vermeule and Brauer, Stone Sculptures, The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collection of the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1990

For the death of Pentheus, cf. no. 243 in Comstock and Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976