A Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman, Roman Imperial, 3rd quarter of the 3rd Century A.D.

wearing a tunic and mantle, turned slightly to her left, her eyes with incised irises and drilled crescentic pupils, the long centrally parted hair arranged in a melon coiffure, hanging loose behind the ears and the nape of the neck, and braided into multiple strands brought up in a broad enveloping plait to the crown of the head; the turned socle, bust, and head carved in one piece.

French family collection, Lyon, since the early 20th Century

Both socle and bust ancient and carved in one piece, the portrait head may or may not belong, nose restored in marble, proper left ear fragmentary, lobe of right ear restored in plaster, bust partly restored in marble and plaster on the proper left side, minor chips, surface worn
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