Statue
32-36-63
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Italy | Latium | Minturnae
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 32-36-63 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Italy | Latium | Minturnae |
| Locus | In a masonry Byz. wash-trough, E. Flank, "Temple of Julius Caesar" |
| Period | Republican Roman Period |
| Date Made | 99-0 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Marble (Stone) |
| Iconography | Male Head |
| Description | Male portrait. White marble. Broken off at neck; back crown and proper left temple broken away; also top of right ear and tip of nose. Some chipping. Square owel hole in back-break. Clean shaven, looking frontally, with assymetrical bones. High forehead with frown wrinkles, also deep wrinkles from nose to corners of mouth. Slight rill hole indentation. Eyes wide open with unwrinkled lids. Probably provincial work; not from a death mask, but instead showing clear direct features. Found in a masonry Byz. wash-trough, E. flank. |
| Height | 26 cm |
| Credit Line | Minturnae (Italy) Expedition, Jotham Johnson, 1932 |
| Other Number | 853 - Field No SF |
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