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Head of Aphrodite of the Capitoline type

about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
Place of ManufactureLazio, Italy
Country of Origin, for CustomsItaly
Medium/TechniqueMarble, Dolomitic from the Greek island of Thasos, top of head completed in Calcitic marble probably from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
DimensionsOther (Head): 30 x 23 x 27 cm (11 13/16 x 9 1/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Overall (Height including modern base): 41 cm (16 1/8 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number99.351
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceFound at Gabii. By 1842, Palazzo Valentini, Rome [see note 1]. By 1899, Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London; 1899, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: December 24, 1899)

NOTES:
[1] Mentioned by Ernest Platner et al., Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, vol. 3 (Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1842), p. 156, among the antiquities at the Palazzo Valentini that had been found at Gabii. It was still described as being at the Palazzo Valentini by Friedrich Matz, Antike Bildwerke in Rom, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1881), p. 200, no. 755. Vincenzo Valentini bought the Palazzo in 1827, and in 1873 it was acquired by the Province of Rome. [2] MFA accession nos. 99.338 - 99.542 were purchased together for $32,500.


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about A.D. 138–192
Head of a bearded man
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
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about 10 B.C.–A.D. 14
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late 1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.
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