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Head of a Youth

Greek (Sculptor)

1st century BCE-4th century CE

crystalline, coarse, translucent white marble with red color
(Ancient Greece )

This head of a youth wears a band around his hair, and the back of his head is flattened off. There is drilling in the hair and red in the cracks.

The piece is cut at the base of the neck as for insertion; there is a hole for mounting drilled at the bottom.

Provenance

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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

Greece (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters (?)

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

23.136

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