An ancient Roman marble head of a young boy, smiling with a rounded face and prominent forehead, his hair arranged in crescent shaped undulating locks; a cross later crudely carved on the forehead in the early Christian Period.
Julio-Claudian Period.
Ca. early 1st century AD.
Height: 6 1/2 in. (16.6 cm).
Formerly in a Connecticut private collection; previously in a New York private collection, 1990s.
Published: R. Mathisen and H. Sivan, eds., Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Variorum (Michigan, 1996), p. 288, pl. 11.
