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Portrait statue of a boy

Portrait statue of a boy





Artist : Anonymous


Date : near 50 B.C.

Material : Bronze
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1914)
Item 90 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Sculpture

Vitrine : V07

Area related
Ile de Rhodes (Greece)

Description   

This life-sized statue was found on Rhodes, whose ancient Greek cities were flourishing centers of commercial commerce and culture during the Roman period. With his broad face and short hair, the boy resembles young princes in the family of the emperor Augustus.
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Portrait statue of a boy
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Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (Auguste)