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Right hand holding a roll
Greco-Roman Period
Medium/Technique
Grayish white marble with crystals, from western Asia Minor (?)
Dimensions
22.2 x 12.7 x 9.5 cm (8 3/4 x 5 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Hay Collection—Gift of C. Granville Way
Accession Number72.733
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 225.
DescriptionThere are two dowel holes at the break in the wrist. The index finger was also restored or made in this fashion. The surfaces are slightly worn and stained.
The scroll or rotulus is tightly rolled and is naturalistically represented at its outer end. The fingernails are also precisely defined, and the hand seems to be male. This would suggest that it must have once formed part of a Graeco-Roman, late Republican or imperial togate statue.
The scroll or rotulus is tightly rolled and is naturalistically represented at its outer end. The fingernails are also precisely defined, and the hand seems to be male. This would suggest that it must have once formed part of a Graeco-Roman, late Republican or imperial togate statue.
ProvenanceHay Collection