Object photograph·Csn3894·1927–1931

Hellenistic and Roman sculpture

Carved stone head of a figure with wavy hair framing the face, eyes, nose and mouth worn. — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3894. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A carved stone head, broken off at the neck and set on a plain block, shown frontally. The hair is arranged in wavy locks over the brow and down the sides, and the eyes, nose and lips are worn and chipped. A scale bar with a number label sits in front of the block against a plain grey backdrop.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Hellenistic and Roman sculpture.

Swedish, as on the record

Hellenistisk och Romersk skulptur.