Fragmentary portrait head with long beard. From Assos. Fifth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Assos
Province:
Asia
Region:
Asia Minor
Details:
Agora
Current Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Acc.No. 84.65
OBJECT
Object:
Head, separately worked
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
No
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Brushed forward
Height(cm):
28.7
Attributes:
Beard:
Bearded, long
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Position:
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
400
Latest:
500
MAIN REFERENCE
Comstock, M.B. and C.C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone. The Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston 1976, 238, no. 373
Inan, J. & E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Römische und frühbyzantinische Porträ̈tplastik aus der Türkei : neue Funde, Mainz 1979, 156-7, no. 108, pl. 91.4-5
