| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1202 | |
| Title: | ROMAN PORTRAIT: BEARDED MALE HEAD | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 1202 | |
| Description: | Portrait of middle-aged bearded man, carved from reused marble: crown preserves traces of an earlier hairstyle, using long, curving waves; skull also flattened at back in line with nape of neck, while rt. ear slightly askew. Most of original hair hacked away with punch, leaving a few curls over crown. Frontal hair carved in small, superimposed rows of vertical scratches, combed forward. Forehead modeled slightly at sides, center with vertical crease between eyes. Eyebrows scratched and stippled. Eyes small, upper half tilting forward; irises incised, drilled round hole for pupils. Moustache corvers small mouth. It and beard carved with shorter scratches and stipples. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystalled white marble | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Head, broken at top of neck in front, lower down on sides; nose partly broken, lt. side of hair, lt. ear. Surface stained black; some incrustation. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.275 (head) W00.17 Depth00.19 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.31 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 3rd-early 4th c. A.C. (DeG) | |
| Area: | Provenance Unknown | |
| Context: | Provenance Unknown, Brought to Museum before 1926; outside excavations | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IX P092 N182; DeGrazia Diss. P207 ff., N50 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Monument: Provenance Unknown Images (8) Basket: Provenance Unknown, Brought to Museum before 1926; outside excavations Notebook Page: NB 142, spread 84 (pp. 158 - 159) |
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