Male portrait

Classification

portrait ; sculpture / statue

Culture

Roman

Dimensions

height: 24.5 cm

Date

end of the 1st century B.C. – beginning of the 1st century A.D.

Material

marble analysis ; Prokonnesian marble

Iconography

male head

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937); Grimani Collection

Inventory

4805

Hyp-3903

References

Hekler 1929, 119, no. 111

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 portrait was made of Prokonnesian (Marmara) marble. Click here for the detailed results.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.