Portrait head of Britannicus
about A.D. 48 or 49
Medium/TechniqueMarble, possibly from the Greek islands of Naxos or Thasos
DimensionsHeight: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
Credit LineJohn Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession number69.27
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
5th century
550–520 B.C.
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
about A.D. 200
about A.D. 120
second half of 2nd century A.D.
A.D. 120–140
about 150 B.C. or later
A.D. 117–138, after a Greek original of about 450–430 B.C.
about mid-2nd century A.D.