Marble Portrait of a Young Trajanic Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2008

Title: Marble portrait of a young woman

Medium; Technique: Marble

Culture: Roman

Period: Trajanic

Date: ca. A.D. 98–117

Dimensions: H. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1927

Accession Number: 27.122.4

Description:

Said to be from Greece

This portrait of an attractive young woman has a simplified version of the hairstyle popular during the reign of the emperor Trajan. The rough finish at the back of the neck indicates that the head was meant to be set into a draped statue.


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