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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 view
ClassificationsSculpture
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.