About the Artwork
Head of a Man
1st century BCE
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Roman
Unknown
Clay
Overall: 7 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 9 inches (19.7 × 18.4 × 22.9 cm)
Sculpture
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
37.170
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Provenance
purchased from Ugo Jandolo (Rome, Italy)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 8 (1938): pp. 68-70,(ill. p. 69).
Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. DIA. 1954, p. 131.
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Roman, Head of a Man, 1st century BCE, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 37.170.
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