Youth head from Baalbeck

Classification

portrait ; sculpture / statue

Culture

Roman

Dimensions

height: 14.5 cm

Date

middle of the 3rd century A.D.

Period

3rd century A.D.

Material

marble analysis ; Göktepe marble

Iconography

youth ; male head

Production place

Roman Empire

Findspot

Lebanon

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

Inventory

8423

Hyp-3837

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 164; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 187; Hekler 1929, 158, no. 165

The contour-like eyelashes of the youth and the geometric panels of the face are signs of the Imperial period's slow decline of naturalistic representation.

Marble analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the statue was made of Göktepe marble. Click here for the detailed results.

Trails

Hellenistic sculpture

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.