Female portrait

Classification

sculpture / statue ; statue

Culture

Roman

Dimensions

height of head: 22 cm

Date

1st century A.D.

Period

Early Imperial Period (1st century); Late Republic

Material

marble ; marble analysis

Iconography

female head

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum ; Jankovich, Miklós (1772–1846)

Inventory

8426

Hyp-6994

References

Hekler 1929, 162, no. 167; Arndt–Amelung–Lippold, EA (1893–), 3186–3187

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 sculpture was made of Parian (Paros-Marathi) or Luna (Carrara) marble. Click here for the detailed results.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.