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Marciana (?)
Marciana (?)

Marciana (?)

about A.D. 100
Medium/TechniqueMarble, probably from Göktepe, Turkey (near Aphrodisias)
DimensionsHeight x length (of face): 26.5 x 15.5 cm (10 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit LineArthur Mason Knapp Fund
Accession number16.286
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceSaid to have been found in Subiaco, Italy. By 1915, with Hubert William Gallandt (b. 1899 – d. 1928), New York; 1916, sold by Gallandt to the MFA for $1000 [see note]. (Accession Date: July 20, 1916)

NOTE: The head was first offered to the MFA in 1915. H. W. Gallandt sold it on behalf of an anonymous owner, and reported that it was found at Subiaco.

Portrait of an empress possibly Fausta
Portrait of an empress possibly Fausta
300–325
Portrait of a benefactor
Portrait of a benefactor
First half of the 6th century CE
Portrait of a youth
Portrait of a youth
about A.D. 150
Statuette of Hercules
Statuette of Hercules
2nd century AD
Head
Athlete with a scraper (Apoxyomenos)
about A.D. 110–135
Portrait of a young man
Portrait of a young man
about A.D. 98–117
Portrait of a man
Portrait of a man
About A.D. 125–145
Bust of a woman
Bust of a woman
about A.D. 140-150
Portrait of a man
Portrait of a man
about A.D. 180
Head of a woman
Head of a woman
A.D. 220–240
Balbinus (?)
about A.D. 238, reworked from a portrait from the early 2nd century A.D.
Bust of Elagabalus
Bust of Elagabalus
A.D. 218–222