This small head is fairly typical of the kind of bronze artefact which decorated Roman villas in the early imperial period. Its compact nature and style make this head rather later in date than the Doryphoros, to which it bears a resemblance. Like him, it probably represents an athlete
Number:
365
Material:
Bronze
Location of Original:
Naples, National Museum 853
Size:
0.41m
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 219 (n.4)
Comparetti & dePetra: La Villa Ercolanese dei Pisoni, 261, no.4, pl. VII.3
Brunn-Bruckmann: Denkmäler Griechischer und Römischer Skulptur, pl. 364
Rayet: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen, vol.2, pl. 66
Ruesch: Guide to the National Museum, Naples, 212
Date:
C3 or C2 BCE
Provenance:
Found at Herculaneum
