Inventory Number: | S 2434 | |
Section Number: | ΡΡ 240 | |
Title: | Portrait Head of Male Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Broken at neck; nose and a large area of back of head missing. Chips missing from curls of hair. Portrait of a bearded male, wearing a wreath of maybe laurel. Furrowed brow; drilled eyeballs, looking up. Mustache, eyebrows, edges of hair on forehead, and most of beard done with heavy wavy incisions. Center of beard on cheeks and hair on top of head incised as curls. Hair forward of wreath done as heavily incised and drilled curls. White crystalline marble. | |
Context: | On floor of Library of Pantainos. | |
Notebook Page: | 131 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 86-685, 86-686, 86-688, color slide | |
Dimensions: | P.H. ca. 0.33; W. ca. 0.23; P.Th. ca. 0.24 | |
Date: | 17 July 1971 | |
Section: | ΡΡ | |
Grid: | S/7,8-13/20 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), p. 91. | |
Guide (1976), p. 295. | ||
References: | Publication: Museum Guide (2014) Images (12) Card: S 2434 |