Advanced Search 
Roundel with portrait of youth
Roman
3rd century A.D.
Medium/Technique
Lead
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: Diameter 0.245 m
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Eisenberg
Accession Number1993.703
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionThe relief bust of a youth wearing a toga is placed frontally in the roundel. Probably meant to be set into a wall, the roundel appears to be concave because the edge is slightly raised and inward-curving. Damaged areas in neck and right shoulder.
ProvenanceBy 1992: with Royal Athena Galleries, 153 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022; gift of Dr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Eisenberg to MFA, November 17, 1993