A Roman marble herm with the head of Alexander the Great
A Roman marble herm with the head of Alexander the Great
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Surmounted by a portrait head of Alexander, the face highly polished and sensitively carved with lidded almond-shaped articulated eyes, his full lips slightly smiling, his wavy leonine locks in his characteristic anastole hairstyle, bound by a fillet, set atop a smooth shaft tapering slightly towards the base, with genitalia and toes sculpted in high relief, 120cm high
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A Roman marble herm with the head of Alexander the Great
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Surmounted by a portrait head of Alexander, the face highly polished and sensitively carved with lidded almond-shaped articulated eyes, his full lips slightly smiling, his wavy leonine locks in his characteristic anastole hairstyle, bound by a fillet, set atop a smooth shaft tapering slightly towards the base, with genitalia and toes sculpted in high relief, 120cm high
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