Head of a youth
about 510–480 B.C.
Medium/TechniqueMarble, probably from Ushak, Turkey
DimensionsHeight x width: 27 x 19 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit LineCentennial purchase with funds donated by Landon T. Clay
Accession number69.982
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have come from Philadelphia (ancient Lydia). From a private collection, Germany [see note]. By 1968, Robert E. Hecht, Jr., New York; 1969, sold by Robert E. Hecht to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 11, 1969)
NOTE: According to M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA, 1976), p. 15, cat. no. 22.
NOTE: According to M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA, 1976), p. 15, cat. no. 22.
about A.D. 196
about A.D. 100
late 1st–early 2nd century CE
First half of the 6th century CE
late 3rd to 4th century A.D.
about A.D. 150
mid- to late 2nd century A.D.
2nd–3rd century A.D.