Polydeukion Head

Object Information

1974.06.0001
29 cm H X 21 cm W X 21 cm D
Sculpture,
Marble,
Roman
Unknown Geographical Region,
Unknown Provenance,
c. 150 CE

Description

Polydeukion was one of the favorite pupils of the well-known Athenian sophist and philanthropist Herodes Atticus, who lived in Greece in the 2nd century CE. In the year 147 or 148, the young man met an untimely death, and Herodes commissioned many portraits in his memory. This particularly fine example captures the delicate features of the youth and evokes an appropriately somber mood.

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