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Youth head from Baalbeck

Youth's head with laurel wreath

Classification
sculpture / statue; statue
Dimensions
height: 13.3 cm
Date
modern
Period
post-antique
Material
alabaster; material analysis
Iconography
youth; male head; laurel wreath
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts; Wartha, Vince (1844–1914)
Inventory
52.38
ID
Hyp-6943
References
Türr 1984, 230, no. RK 25

Material 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 alabaster. Click here for the detailed results.

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This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.