Property from an French Private Collection
A FRAGMENTARY ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A WOMAN, LATE AUGUSTAN/TIBERIAN, CIRCA A.D. 1-37
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5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Property from an French Private Collection
A FRAGMENTARY ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A WOMAN, LATE AUGUSTAN/TIBERIAN, CIRCA A.D. 1-37
with eyes drilled in the inner corners, her hair arranged in overlapping curved locks over the temples.
Height 23 cm.
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the painter Louis Wiederkehr (1925-2010), Soultz, Haut-Rhin, acquired before 1970
by descent to the present owner
For the coiffure cf. K. Polaschek, Trierer Zeitschrift vol. 35, 1972, fig. 7, and V. Kockel, Porträtreliefs stadtrömischer Grabbauten, 1993, pls. 102, 106, and 107. The realistic depiction of the physiognomy is typical of funerary portraits of freedwomen and freedmen in the early decades of the Empire (see Kockel, op. cit., passim).