Half portrait of a man
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Head of a bearded man

Head of a bald man

Classification
sculpture / statue; statue
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
height: 23 cm
Date
1st century (?) B.C.
Period
Hellenistic Period (Greek, 323–31)?
Material
marble analysis; Thasian marble
Iconography
male head
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Budapest, Hungarian National Museum
Inventory
8420
ID
Hyp-3840
References
Hekler 1929, 158, no. 162

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 sculpture was made of Thasian marble. Click here for the detailed results.

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