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Youth

4th century B.C.
Medium/TechniqueMarble, probably from Mount Pentelikon, near Athens
DimensionsHeight: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession number14.526
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenancePossibly the art market, Rome [see note]. 1914, sold by Ludwig Pollak (dealer; b. 1868 - d. 1943), Rome, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTE: Mary B. Comstock and Cornelius Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone (Boston: MFA, 1976), p. 41, cat. no. 58.
Statuette of Aphrodite
about 325–300 B.C.
Head of a bearded man
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
Relief with a portrait of Agrippa
about 10 B.C.–A.D. 14
Homer
late 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.
Head of a youth
about 330–320 B.C.
Grave stele of Aristomache
about 330–320 B.C.
Woman from a funerary monument
about 330–325 B.C.
Weeping Siren
about 350–325 B.C.
Head of an athlete pouring oil into his hand
late 2nd century B.C. after a late Classical original of around 360 B.C.