CIRCA 225-250 A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN
CIRCA 225-250 A.D.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 13 June 1996, lot 89.
Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 6 June 2013, lot 642.

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Lot Essay

The closely-cropped hair and beard and the articulation of the eyes clearly point to the period of the Soldier Emperors of the 3rd century. For other related portraits of the period compare nos. 143-146 in K. Fittschen and P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, Band II.

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