Head of a Man

Description Hellenistic sculpture was the model for this head's facial features and short, curly hairstyle, while the choice of a hard, dense stone as its material is Egyptian. The head represents an elderly man with short hair, beard, and mustache. He has a heavily lined forehead and deep nasolabial furrows.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/31/1998	Examination	survey
1/19/1999	Treatment	cleaned; other

Exhibitions

• Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Upper Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913