Sculpture

58-22-1

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 58-22-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Classical | Hellenistic
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Iconography Male Head
Description

Small head of a man wearing narrow plain flat fillet; hair a flat cap worked in very low relief into separate curly locks; beard very lightly worked. eyes large, face round, forhead low with brow-ridge. Bronze dark, cleaned, showing a few casting flaws and some roughness from disease. No additions by incision or cold chiseling.

Height 8.1 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from George Allen, 1958

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