A ROMAN MARBLE MALE PORTRAIT HEAD

PROBABLY FROM ALEXANDRIA, CIRCA 130 A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE MALE PORTRAIT HEAD
PROBABLY FROM ALEXANDRIA, CIRCA 130 A.D.
With strong features, prominent nose and full lips, his cheeks rounded, the chin receding slightly, the eyes hooded with defined brows, with curly beard and fine moustache, his hair in thick corkscrew curls with three distinct locks in the centre of forehead
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

来源

Kunstwerke der Antike; Auktion 26, Münzen und Medaillen AG, Munich, 5 October 1963, no. 191.
Victor Adda (1885-1965) collection; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Bernisches Historisches Museum, Switzerland, 6 November 1982-6 February 1983.

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拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
J. Dörig, Art Antique. Collections privées de Suisse Romande, Geneva, 1975, no. 378.
H. Jucker and D. Willers, Gesichter. Griechische und romische Bildnisse aus Schweizer Besitz, exhibition catalogue, Bern, 1983, pp. 136-137.

This portrait represents a combination of characteristically Hadrianic portrait features with an Egyptian stone-working tradition. That the pupils are not drilled is common for Egyptian sculpture of this time, while the modelling of the hair and shape of the chin also suggest an Egyptian origin.