Object photograph·Csn3773·1927–1931

Roman sculpture (Metropolitan Museum 1325)

Roman stone head of a man with short, wavy hair, shown on a dark cylindrical base — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3773. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A carved stone head of a man with short, layered wavy hair, deep-set eyes, a broken nose tip and closed lips, shown from the front. The head rests on a dark cylindrical base, with a metric scale bar and a printed museum label card below it against a plain grey backdrop.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Roman sculpture, Metropolitan Museum 1325.

Swedish, as on the record

Romersk skulptur, Metropolitan Museum 1325.