Portrait of Arsinoe Philopator III
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Portrait of Alexander the Great

Portrait of an old man

Classification
sculpture / statue; statue
Dimensions
height: 22.8 cm
Date
modern
Period
post-antique
Material
Parian marble, lychnites; marble analysis
Iconography
male head
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Horn, Albert Mrs. Collection; Beöthy, Zsolt (1848–1922)
Inventory
69.2.A
ID
Hyp-6969
References
Türr 1984, 187, no. RR 11; Frel, in GettyMusJ 5 (1977), 62, fig. 7–9

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

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