Collection: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Title: | Portrait of an intellectual |
Context: | From Athens |
Findspot: | Found at Athens, in a well at Agia Paraskevi (near an Early Christian Basilica), according to Comstock & Vermeule. |
Summary: | Mature man with long beard |
Object Function: | Honorary? |
Material: | Marble |
Sculpture Type: | Free-standing portrait statue |
Category: | Separated fragments |
Style: | Late Roman |
Technique: | In-the-round |
Original or Copy: | Original |
Date: | ca. 400 AD |
Dimensions: | H. 0.463 m |
Scale: | Over life-size |
Region: | Attica |
Period: | Late Roman Imperial |
Condition: Head only (nearly complete)
Condition Description: This head has sustained damages to the nose and right eye. The surface is in good condition except for some dark stains, cement adhesions, and a yellowish patina.
Material Description: "Pentelic" according to Vermeule and J.B. Ward-Perkins
Technique Description: The neck was worked for insertion into a draped statue.
Sources Used:
Other Bibliography: R.R.R. Smith, JRS 80 (1990) 144 no. 4, n. 70;