Head of Domitian in the guise of Hercules
81-96 A.D.
Place of ManufactureItaly (Central)
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Carrara in northwest Italy
DimensionsOverall: 20.5 × 13.3 × 15.2 cm (8 1/16 × 5 1/4 × 6 in.)
Credit LineFrank B. Bemis Fund
Accession number1978.227
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1938/1939, art market, Rome [see note 1]. Private collection, Chicago [see note 2]. 1978, Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York; 1978, sold by Merrin Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1978)
NOTES:
[1] Recorded by the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut) as being on the art market, Rome, as of January 5, 1939. See the Inventarbuch 1938 (vol. 28), Rome, 1938, page 111, accessible on http://arachne.uni-koeln.de. Photo no. 3241, Negative no. 1938.1533. Many thanks to Jörg Deterling for locating this record. [2] C. C. Vermeule and M. B. Comstock, Sculpture in Stone and Bronze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1988), p. 54, no. 45.
NOTES:
[1] Recorded by the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut) as being on the art market, Rome, as of January 5, 1939. See the Inventarbuch 1938 (vol. 28), Rome, 1938, page 111, accessible on http://arachne.uni-koeln.de. Photo no. 3241, Negative no. 1938.1533. Many thanks to Jörg Deterling for locating this record. [2] C. C. Vermeule and M. B. Comstock, Sculpture in Stone and Bronze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1988), p. 54, no. 45.
1st or 2nd century A.D.
late 1st century B.C. – 1st century A.D.
1st–2nd century A.D.
2nd century A.D. or 19th century
1st–2nd century A.D.
30 B.C.–A.D. 70
1st–2nd century A.D.
late 2nd century A.D., based on Hellenistic Greek work of 2nd century B.C.
probably first half of the 1st century B.C.
about A.D. 125–175