SculptureGreek?2nd century BCE

Head of a Young Man (?) of Barbarian Origin, in the Pergamene tradition

100 BCE

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Marble from the Greek islands

Culture

Greek?

Period

Hellenistic period, Late

Century

2nd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

8 cm (3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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