CIRCA 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A YOUTH
CIRCA 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
With idealized features, the unarticulated convex eyes thickly lidded, the sharp arching brows merging with the slender nose, the bow-shaped mouth drilled at the corners, the filtrum indicated, the long wavy hair bound in a twisted diadem and falling along the shoulders in back, a corkscrew lock before each ear, and a distinctive twisting lock at the center of the forehead
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Murray Adams, London, 4 June 1956.

Lot Essay

This head is a Roman adaptation of a Greek Severe style sculpture of circa 480-450 B.C. For another more complete example compare the so-called Eleusinian attendant in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, fig. 112 in Ridgway, The Severe Style in Greek Sculpture.

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