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Monaco Head

This is a Roman version of a portrait of an unknown Greek general. The closed mouth makes it somehow less expressive than other similar portraits, as though he is commemorated rather than caught in action

Number: 
346
Material: 
Marble
Location of Original: 

Munich, Glyptothek 301

Size: 
0.52m
References: 

Furtwängler: Catalogue of the Munich Museum, 330
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 115, no.603

Date: 
Roman. Original: Hellenistic
Provenance: 

Acquired from the Villa Albani in 1815 (?)

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