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Bust of Elagabalus
Bust of Elagabalus

Bust of Elagabalus

A.D. 218–222
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Göktepe, Turkey (near Aphrodisias)
DimensionsOverall: 71 × 30.5 × 53.3 cm (27 15/16 × 12 × 21 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number1977.337
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
Provenance1977, sold by Etablissement D.C., Liechtenstein, through Antiken Heinz Herzer, Munich, to the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: June 9, 1977)

NOTE: At the time of acquisition, Heinz Herzer stated that the sculpture had been in private possession since the nineteenth century.
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
Marciana (?)
Marciana (?)
about A.D. 100
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.