Boy with a youth bell
Description: | Knabe with a youth bell The head of a boy, in which portrait features are already recognizable, comes from a hellenistic time from a lower life.A longer, braided hair tuft can be seen on the back of the head.This is the so -called youth bell that has been known since Hellenistic times, which is formally due to the Locke of the Horus boy.She was cut off and consecrated the boy when you enter adulthood at around 14 years.Haben heads with youth curls have been since the 3rd century BC.BCD in Cyprus several times.Bernhard-Walcher u.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna: 1999 H. 15 cm |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 350 - 300 BC |
Collection: | Vienna Museum |
Provenance: | Millosicz, Georg von, Vienna;1890 purchase from the estate |
Accession Number: | Antikensammlung, I 626 |