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Head of a man from an Attic funerary monument

Head of a male foreigner ('barbarian') from a relief

Classification
relief
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
height: 11.3 cm; width: 9.7 cm
Period
Roman Imperial Period
Material
marble analysis; Luna marble
Iconography
male head
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Bíró, Béla (1899–1982)
Inventory
7034
ID
Hyp-6991

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 relief was made of Luna (Carrara) marble. Click here for the detailed results.

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