THREE ROMAN STONE OBJECTS
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THREE ROMAN STONE OBJECTS

CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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THREE ROMAN STONE OBJECTS
CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Including a marble head of Attis or Men, with a row of snail-curls fringing his face below his Phrygian cap; a limestone lion with a radiating mane, his head turned to his left, the mouth open; and a marble female head, perhaps Cybele, from a relief
Lion: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) long (3)
Provenance
Richard R. Wagner, Barnstable, Massachusetts, acquired in Istanbul; gifted to the MFA, Boston, 1965.
Literature
C.C. Vermeule, MFA Annual Report, 1965, p. 68 (all three).
C.C. Vermeule, The Classical Journal 62, 1966, pp. 105-107, fig. 14 (lion).
C.C. Vermeule, The Classical Journal 63, 1967, p. 49, p. 67, figs. 19-20 (heads).
C.C. Vermeule and N. Neuerburg, Catalogue of the Ancient Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1973, p. 16, under no. 31 (lion).
M.B. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1976, nos. 230, 232, 229.
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