Portrait of a bearded man (the so-called Septimius Severus)
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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Classification
portrait; sculpture / statue
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
height: 33 cm
Date
first half of the 1st century B.C.
Period
Early Imperial Period (1st century)
Material
marble analysis; Parian marble, lychnites
Iconography
male head
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)
Inventory
3941
ID
Hyp-4036
References
Hekler 1929, 69, 74, no. 59; Wollanka 1912, 154, no. 136

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 Parian (Paros-Marathi) marble. Click here for the detailed results.

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