The youthful head to the right is attached to a fragment from a large sarcophagus and may have personified a people or a place or may have been an abstraction such as "eternity." The hair on the crown is carved while the locks around the face are undercut with the running and pointed drill. The...
Provenance
By 1979: Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Collection (formerly in Benjamin Rowland, Jr. Collection, acquired in Boston, London, or Rome); gift of Mrs. Benjamin Rowland, Jr. to MFA, February 14, 1979
Credit Line
Benjamin and Lucy Rowland Collection
Roman Provincial, Imperial Period, Antonine, about A.D. 160–180
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), no. 033.
Dimensions
Height x width: 16 x 19 cm (6 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Accession Number
1979.54
Medium or Technique
Marble, probably Pentelic or possibly from Asia Minor