Roman Marble Portrait Head in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2009

Title: Marble portrait of a man from a funerary relief

Medium; Technique: Marble

Culture: Roman

Period: Early Imperial, Augustan

Date: late 1st century B.C.

Dimensions: H. 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917

Accession Number: 17.230.133

On View

Description:

This head from a funerary relief probably represents a freedman, or former slave, who achieved prosperity after obtaining his freedom. Such reliefs showing busts of family members within a window-like frame were often set into the outer wall of a family's funerary building.

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