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LSA-121 Portrait head of young man, re-worked from earlier portrait. Athens. Third century










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Athens Province: Achaea Region: Greece and South Balkans (with Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace)
Details: Diogeneion, in the fillings of the 'Valerian Wall'
Current Location: Athens, National Museum inv. no. 399
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Clothing: Hairstyle: Brushed forward Height(cm): 28
Attributes: Beard: Clean-shaven
SUBJECT
Honorand: Unknown Position: Others Gender: Male
Awarder: Unknown Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 220 Latest: 280
MAIN REFERENCE
Lattanzi, E., I ritratti dei Cosmeti nel Museo Nazionale di Atene, Rome 1968, 64, no. 33, pl. 33

Lattanzi, E., I ritratti dei Cosmeti nel Museo Nazionale di Atene, Rome 1968, 64, no. 33, pl. 33

Datsoule-Satvride, A., Romaika Portraita sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio tes Athenas, Athens 1985, pp. 106-7 pl. 162-3

L'Orange, H. P., Studien zur Geschichte des spätantiken Porträts, Oslo 1933, pp. 137 no. 85 figs. 161, 162

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