| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | T 277 | |
| Title: | PORTRAIT OF A ROMAN MALE | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | T | |
| Object Number: | 277 | |
| Description: | Life-sized head of man with short, closely-cropped hair, textured by shallowly carved waves; slightly less weel-worked in back. Square brow that slopes strongly from eyebrows to hairline. Bridge of nose low, nose strongly curving up to break. Narrow, compressed lips, prominent, round chin. Short neck. | |
| Material: | White fine-crystalled marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Three joining fragments. Head broken at the base of the neck, large segment missing from the left side. Small chip missing from the right cheek, hair over the central forehead badly abraded, the nose, right ear, and chin are chipped. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. of chin to crown 0.255, | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.31, W. 0.145, D. 0.24 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Tiberian. Formerly identified as Galba. | |
| Area: | Theater | |
| Findspot Description: | Theater | |
| Bibliography: | Sturgeon 2004, Corinth 9.3, cat. 28 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:3, 2004 Monument: Theater Image: bw 1548 Image: digital 2013 0765 |
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