TAR0542

Identifiant

TAR0542

MGU5332P

Datation

300 av. J.-C. – 200 av. J.-C.

Site (nom actuel)

Taranto

Lieu de conservation

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Inventaire

1997.24

État de conservation

Bon état, cassures

Conditions d’acquisition

Purchase, Mrs. Martin Fried Gift and Arthur Darby Nock Bequest, 1997

Nature du marqueur

Statue

Marqueur

Commentaire sur la nature

Tête de statue

Qualificatif

Figuré

Matériau

Pierre

Commentaire sur le matériau

"Marble (white with fairly large crystals, probably from the Greek islands)" (Met Museum)

Dimensions (Hauteur, largeur, épaisseur)

21.9 cm

Technique de manufacture

ronde-bosse

Commentaire sur la manufacture

sculpté en ronde-bosse

Commentaire sur les représentations

"This head of a young man with wavy, upswept hair turns slightly toward the left. The parted lips and frowning eyebrows give the face an anguished expression appropriate to a funerary context. The head, preserved to the base of the neck and roughed out behind, was made for insertion onto a torso, possibly carved from a material less expensive than marble such as limestone. This suggests that it belongs to a western Greek workshop, where imported Greek marble was used sparingly." (Met Museum)

Bibliographie

Metropolitan Museum