Under life-size porphyry head of clean-shaven man. From Egypt. Early fourth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Province:
Region:
Egypt
Details:
Purchased from Mrs. Hayford Peirce, Los Angeles by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC, March 1963
Current Location:
Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington DC, inv. no. BZ 1963.5
OBJECT
Object:
Head
Material:
Porphyry
Re-Use?
No
Clothing:
n/a
Hairstyle:
Short
Height(cm):
16.3
Attributes:
Beard:
Clean-shaven
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
300
Latest:
340
MAIN REFERENCE
Vikan, G., Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance, Washington D.C. 1995, 19-24, no. 11 (Maximinus Daia?)
Calza, R., Iconografia Romana Imperiale. Da Carausio a Giuliano (287-363 d. C.), Rome 1972, 146, no. 57, pl. 38.109-110
