Marble head of Apollo
The looped hair arrangement evokes that of the young god Apollo as he was represented in statues dating to the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C. Archaizing figures were popular in the Roman period, and this head, probably set on a rectangular herm shaft, would have been a suitable garden ornament.
Artwork Details
- Title: Marble head of Apollo
- Period: Augustan or Julio-Claudian
- Date: ca. 27 BCE–68 CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Marble
- Dimensions: H.: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
- Classification: Stone Sculpture
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacques and Joyce de la Begassiere, 1959
- Object Number: 59.77
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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