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
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Ralph W. Stephan, Washington, D.C., 1960s.
Catharina Baart Biddle, Washington, D.C.
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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.