Statue
Portrait
MS250
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS250 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Imperial Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Imperial Roman Period |
| Date Made | 220-245 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Marble (Stone) |
| Iconography | Man |
| Description | Marble funeral portrait of a middle-aged man. The back of the head is summarily carved and the scale of this portrait is less than life-size. This suggests that the piece was displayed in a shallow niche inside a communal tomb known as a columbarium (dovecote), used for housing the cremated remains of the dead. |
| Height | 42.5 cm |
| Width | 36 cm |
| Depth | 22 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Carl Edelheim and William Pepper, 1895 |
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