Cast of the head of a boy from the Palatine Hill, Rome
Details
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Title
Cast of the head of a boy from the Palatine Hill, Rome
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Associated place
Rome (Found in 1766 on the Palatine Hill in Rome.) (find spot of original) -
Date
2001 - 2005 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Acquired by exchange with the Archaeological Institute of the Georg August University in Göttingen, 2005.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.64
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Catalogue text
The head is of the Julio-Claudian period, and does not belong to the
naked bust which is of the 3rd century AD.In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
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