An Attic Marble Relief Head of a Youth, 4th Century B.C.
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July 5, 01:10 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Property from a German Private Collection
An Attic Marble Relief Head of a Youth
4th Century B.C.
probably from a funerary stele, facing left, with deep-set eyes, his wavy hair radiating from the crown, bound in a fillet, and falling over the nape of the neck, a curl escaping before the fragmentary ear; no restorations.
Height 24.5 cm.
Prof. Dieter Wyss (1923-1994), Würzburg, acquired in Switzerland in the late 1970s
by descent to the present owner
by descent to the present owner
K.-E. Bühler and H. Weiß, Kommunikation und Perspektivität: Beiträge zur Anthropologie aus Medizin und Geisteswissenschaften, Würzburg, 1985, pp. 371-372