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ROMAN REPUBLICAN MARBLE NEAR LIFESIZE HEAD OF AN ELDER MALE

Carved in high relief, facing right.
An exceptional example of Roman veristic portraiture.

Cf. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 324 for another very similar head referred to as ‘Homer’.

Mid-1st Century BC

H. 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 20
Art of the Ancient World, 1992, no. 37

PW9101R
$55,000


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