Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

GREEK PORTRAIT HEADS.

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factory.—Bitolia, in Macedonia. Presented by Col. W. M.
Leake, B.A., 1839.

Pentelic marble. Height, 2 feet 1 inch. Restored : greater part of
the bust. Mus. Marbles, XL, pi. 17; Mansell, No. 1292.

1852. (Plate XII.) Head of a Poet (?). Portrait head, half-
idealised, of a beardless man, with loosely flowing locks,
and wearing a wreath of ivy leaves and berries. He has
heavily projecting brows, and is slightly turned to his
left. The head is broken from a statue, and a part of the
right shoulder remains. The surface, which is in parts
considerably corroded, is quite untouched.

This head appears to be a work of about 300 b.c. Com-
pare the half-ideal portraits of Alexander.—Borne.

Greek marble. Height of head, 11 inches. Bought, 1897. Arndt,
Einz elver kauf, No. 1194; Arch. Anzeiger, 1898, p. 237; Man-
sell, No. 1487.

1853. (Plate XIX.) Unknown bearded head. The hair is
in rough masses, only partly worked out. The brow
is frowning ; the eyebrows and pupils of the eyes are
marked.— Temple Bequest.

Italian marble. Height, 1 foot. Restored: nose. Grceco-Roman
Guide, II., No. 179.

1854. (Plate XIX.) Unknown head. The tip of the nose
and both ears are injured; the hair and beard are short
and curling. The neck has been anciently fitted into
a socket.—From the Appian Way, Borne.

Greek marble. Height, 1 foot 3 inches. Bought of Castellani, 1873.
Grceco-Roman Guide, L, No. 53.

1855. Unknown bearded head, encircled with a large band
and therefore, perhaps, representing a poet. A Greek
portrait head of a somewhat conventional type.