From: Italy (uncertain) | Latium (uncertain) | Lake Nemi (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number
MS6028
Current Location
Collections Storage
Culture
Greek
Provenience
Italy (uncertain) | Latium (uncertain) | Lake Nemi (uncertain)
Date Made
399-300 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Marble (Stone)
Iconography
Youth | Head
Description
Marble(?), small head of youth. Head tilted slightly toward proper right. Hair to level of nape of neck, seemingly confined behind at about level of bottom of ears. In center of top of head a braid, with central longitudinal furrow, runs from forehead to back of head. Hair on either side of braid curved in long undulating waves. Right ear abraded. Surface of face much worn. Coarse white stone. Bottom of neck deliberately (?) cut flat? Kairos?
Height
12 cm
Credit Line
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
Romano, Irene B. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006. See: p. 134, no. 69
