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Source Description
This large-scale figure of a nude boy once formed part of a large relief, which has been determined from the edges broken all the way around the piece and from the fragment of the background behind the youth's neck. A scarf falls over his right arm and down over his leg; in his hands he holds what appears to be the end of a scroll. The head is finely finished in the round and the details of the anatomy are carefully handled, with the exception of the coarse fingers of the boy's right hand.The figure's right leg is broken at the knee and its left is missing entirely. There is a hole in the groin which was drilled at a later date.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
26652
label
Boy with a Scroll
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
26652
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Boy with a Scroll
description
This large-scale figure of a nude boy once formed part of a large relief, which has been determined from the edges broken all the way around the piece and from the fragment of the background behind the youth's neck. A scarf falls over his right arm and down over his leg; in his hands he holds what appears to be the end of a scroll. The head is finely finished in the round and the details of the anatomy are carefully handled, with the exception of the coarse fingers of the boy's right hand.The figure's right leg is broken at the knee and its left is missing entirely. There is a hole in the groin which was drilled at a later date.
provenance
Michel Boy Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Michel Boy Sale, Paris, May 15, 1905, no. 579; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
2nd-3rd century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
plaques (flat objects)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
13.2
height
5.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 3/16 x W: 2 3/16 in. (13.2 x 5.5 cm)
Source extras
cul
Late Antique
style
Hellenistic
med
bone
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
MED
ROM
exhibition_ids
358
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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