Portrait of a philosopher or official
5th century
FindspotAssos (Behramkale), Troad, Anatolia (Turkey)
Place of ManufactureAthens or Assos, Attica or Troad, Greece or Turkey
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Mt. Pentelikon near Athens
Crystalline Greek marble, from the northern Aegean islands (not Thasos) or western Asia Minor.
Scientific Analysis:
Harvard Lab No. HI770: Isotope ratios - delta13C +2.73 / delta18O -6.86, Attribution - Pentelikon, Justification - Micaceous, fine grained marble.
Dimensions28.7 cm (11 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Archaeological Institute of America
Accession number84.65
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceFrom Assos (Behramkale, Turkey); Agora. 188?: excavated by the Archaeological Institute of America; gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to MFA, January 1884.
late 3rd to 4th century A.D.
Late 6th–7th century A.D.
about A.D. 150–192; first recut about A.D. 210–267; second recut about A.D. 400
First half of the 6th century CE
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
