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Portrait head of Menander

Lost Art-ID
612483
Artist / Creator
Unknown
Title
Portrait head of Menander
Dating
101/200 AD
Object type
Sculpture
Group of reported objects
Sculpture
Material / Technique
Marble
Height
9.00 cm
Inventory number
99.081
Description
Roman copy based on a Hellenistic model. Portrait head of Menander; fragmented; surface cleaned; nose, chin and neck completed; bust supplemented
Provenance
Origin unknown; lost during the war in 1943.
Literature / Source
Arachne-ID: 1091544; F. Studniczka, Das Bildnis Menanders (1904) 206f., Taf. 94.3; G. M. A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks II (1965) 231 (Kat. Nr. 21); K. Fittschen, AM 106 (1991) 247 (Kat. Nr. 19); J. Lang, Mit Wissen geschmückt? (2012) 183 (Kat. Nr. 21)
Published since
Contact
Dr. Jörn Lang
Antikenmuseum, Kustos
E-Mail
joern.lang@uni-leipzig.de
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