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LSA-1159 Under life-size portrait head of clean-shaven man (re-used). From Cyrene. Fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Cyrene Province: Libya Inferior Region: North Africa, Eastern (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica)
Details: Temple of Venus, south of street of Caryatids, on southwest hill
Current Location: British Museum, London, inv. no. 1457
OBJECT
Object: Head, separately worked Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Short Height(cm): 18.8
Attributes: Beard: Clean-shaven
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Gender: Male
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 315 Latest: 350
MAIN REFERENCE
Rosenbaum, E., A Catalogue of Cyrenaican Portrait Sculpture, London 1960, 75-6, no. 99, pl. 62

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