Head of Herakles
about 325 B.C. (?)
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsHeight: 38.7 cm (15 1/4 in.)
Credit LineBenjamin and Lucy Rowland Fund
Accession number1972.392
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Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceSaid to come from a private collection, Central Europe. 1972, sold by Antiken Heinz Herzer, Munich, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1972)
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
5th century
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
about A.D. 138–192
1st century A.D.
about 490–480 B.C.
about 4th century B.C.
4th century B.C.
about 350–325 B.C.
Late 5th–early 4th century B.C.