Statue

MS4030

Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery

From: Italy | Campania | Naples (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4030
Current Location Rome Gallery - On Display
Culture Roman
Provenience Italy | Campania | Naples (uncertain)
Period Imperial Roman Period | Augustan Period
Date Made 1-50
Section Mediterranean
Materials Marble (Stone)
Iconography Head | Child | Caligula?
Description

Marble portrait of the boy Caligula (?) This head bears a striking resemblance to representations of the boy Caligula. Modelling private funerary portraits of children after members of the imperial family was common. Thus this could as well portray an unidentified boy, done in the guise of a Julio-Claudian prince.

Height 20 cm
Width 14.5 cm
Depth 15.5 cm
Credit Line Museum Purchase; subscription Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1901
Other Number 0509 - Cast Number

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