A GALLO-ROMAN LIMESTONE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN

Lot 94
12.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 734891
Lot 94 | A GALLO-ROMAN LIMESTONE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN
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A GALLO-ROMAN LIMESTONE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN

LATE REPUBLICAN PERIOD TO EARLY IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.

11 1⁄2 in. (29.2 cm.) high







Provenance

Said to be from Béziers, France.

Louis Noguier (d. 1905), Béziers.

Jean Dardé, Béziers, acquired by 1925.

Private Collection, France.

Property from a French Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 10 December 2008, lot 48.

Fay Safani, New York.

Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 2012, lot 47.

The Cyrus Collection, Property of Fay Safani, New York; Antiquities, Bonhams, London, 24 October 2012, lot 234.





Literature

E. Espérandieu, Recueil général des bas-reliefs de la Gaule romaine, vol. IX, Paris, 1925, p. 181, no. 6878.

A. Blanchet, Carte archéologique de la Gaule romaine, pt. 10, Paris, 1946, p. 38, no. 16.

M. Clavel, Beziers et son territoire dans l'antiquite, Paris, 1970, p. 620, note 3.

Arachne Online Database no. 38261.
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