Male Portrait Head

225-300 CE (Roman Imperial)

24.8 cm 30.4 cm 24.6 cm

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Roman portraits of private individuals often imitated the hairstyle and other details of contemporary imperial portraits. This impressive example is modeled after likenesses of Emperor Gallienus (253-268 CE).

Sculpture

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17390
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Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Possibly Brummer inv. no. N140]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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