Fragment of Commemorative Relief: Head of Young Nero (?)
about A.D. 42
Medium/TechniqueStone, Greek Island marble (Naxos)
Dimensions16 x 15 cm (6 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Emily Townsend and Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
Accession number1994.353
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceProbably originally from Rome; by 1980: Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule Collection (loaned to MFA as 214.1980); year-end gift of Emily Townsend and Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule, December 1994
550–520 B.C.
about A.D. 48 or 49
530–515 B.C.
2nd century A.D.
5th century
about A.D. 200
about A.D. 120
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
second half of 2nd century A.D.
about 70–60 B.C.
150–100 B.C.
