Male herm-bust
about 480 B.C.
Place of ManufactureThessaly, Greece
Medium/TechniqueMarble probably from the Greek island of Paros
DimensionsHeight: 37 cm (14 9/16 in.)
Credit LineCharles Amos Cummings Fund
Accession number36.218
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1924, sold by Edward Zoumpoulakis (dealer), Athens, to Brummer Gallery, New York (stock no. P1414); 1936, sold by Brummer Gallery to the MFA for $6500. (Accession Date: April 2, 1936)
530–515 B.C.
1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.
150–100 B.C.
about 560–550 B.C.
about 470–450 B.C.
late 5th century B.C.
about 340 B.C.
4th century B.C.
about 325–300 B.C.
4th century B.C.
2nd–1st century B.C.
about 125–25 B.C. (after a Greek type of the 4th century B.C.