Portrait head for insertion of man with full-face and receding chin (re-cut). From Asia Minor? Late fourth to fifth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Province:
Region:
Asia Minor
Details:
Gift of Heinz Herzer, art dealer, from a private German collection
Current Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. no. 1977.656
OBJECT
Object:
Head, separately worked
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Yes
Clothing:
n/a
Hairstyle:
Wreath-style
Height(cm):
43
Attributes:
Beard:
Clean-shaven
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Position:
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
350
Latest:
450
MAIN REFERENCE
Vermeule, C.C. and M. Comstock, Sculpture in stone and bronze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : additions to the collections of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, 1971-1988 , Boston 1988, 60, no. 52