Head of a Youth

2nd century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic or Roman)

14 cm 20 cm 15.5 cm

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A slight turn of the neck causes this figure to gaze to the right and slightly down. In antiquity, the deep-set eyes would have been inlaid—the whites would have been made of ivory or bone and the iris of glass or colored stone. This technique was used by many ancient cultures...

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19251
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Arthur Sambon, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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