Marble head of Apollo

Unknown

ca. 27 BCE–68 CE · Marble · Greek and Roman Art

The looped hair arrangement evokes that of the young god Apollo as he was represented in statues dating to the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C. Archaizing figures were popular in the Roman period, and this head, probably set on a rectangular herm shaft, would have been a suitable garden ornament.

Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 27 BCE–68 CE
Medium: Marble
Culture: Roman
Department: Greek and Roman Art
Credit line: Gift of Jacques and Joyce de la Begassiere, 1959

Visually similar works

Limestone head of a beardless male with a wreath of flower budsUnknown
Marble head of a womanUnknown
Marble head of a veiled manUnknown
Marble head of a youthUnknown
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of rosettesUnknown
Limestone male headUnknown
Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leavesUnknown
Marble head of a youthPolykleitos
Marble head of an athleteUnknown
Marble head from a statue of HarmodiosKritios and Nesiotes
Marble portrait bust of Severus AlexanderUnknown
Marble head of a Hellenistic rulerUnknown