Head of a Member of the Julio-Claudian Family, Possibly Tiberius

1st century CE (Roman Imperial)

28 cm 32.5 cm 21.2 cm

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The head originally surmounted a bust. The hair was very delicately chiseled after casting, the eyebrows incised. The sockets are perforated and the eyes were inset. It is impossible to identify the person positively; he is a Julio-Claudian prince, possibly Tiberius.

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[Found with a cache of several heads, via del Babuino, Rome, 1880]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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