11 ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A BEARDED MALE with calm expression, his locks well delineated with a running drill; traces of original pigment. Mid-2nd Century AD. H. 12 1/4 in. (31 cm.) Found near Lyon, France, 1945. Ex southern French private collection acquired in 1945; private collection, Greensboro, North Carolina, acquired from Royal-Athena in March 2004. 12 ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A YOUNG MAN Late 2nd-early 3rd Century AD. H. 9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) Ex Bezier collection, Paris, acquired in 1970; Paris art market, May 2008. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XX, 2009, no. 23. 13 ROMAN LIMESTONE HEAD OF A PAGE with bow-shaped lips, straight nose, and almond-shaped eyes beneath grooved eyebrows, his long hair arranged in rows of voluted curls and surmounted by a Phrygian cap with beaded decoration. Palmyra, 3rd Century AD. H. 10 1/4 in. (26.1 cm) Ex private collection, Nice, France, acquired in the 1930's. Cf. a similar head in G. Ploug, The Palmyrene Sculptures in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1995, p. 243, no. 113.
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