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Marble Head of a Greek General in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008
Marble head of a Greek general
Roman, Imperial period, 1st - 2nd century AD
Copy of a Greek bronze statue of the mid-4th century BC
Accession # 24.97.32
This powerful portrayal of a man of action belongs to a type popular in Roman times. One suggestion for his identity is the strategos (general) Phokion, pupil of Plato and one of the foremost Athenian statesmen of the fourth century BC, but there is little evidence to support that theory. We do not know if the original statue was a contemporary portrait, like the famous fifth-century portrait of the Athenian statesman and general Perikles, or a posthumous work. It could even be a representation of a hero from the mythic past. He wears a Corinthian helmet pushed up and resting on the back of his head. The helmet is elaborately decorated in relief with griffins on the bowl and rams' heads on the cheek pieces and is similiar to a type worn by the goddess Athena. His eyes would have been inlaid in another material. The head has been worked on for insertion into a statue.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
Roman, Imperial period, 1st - 2nd century AD
Copy of a Greek bronze statue of the mid-4th century BC
Accession # 24.97.32
This powerful portrayal of a man of action belongs to a type popular in Roman times. One suggestion for his identity is the strategos (general) Phokion, pupil of Plato and one of the foremost Athenian statesmen of the fourth century BC, but there is little evidence to support that theory. We do not know if the original statue was a contemporary portrait, like the famous fifth-century portrait of the Athenian statesman and general Perikles, or a posthumous work. It could even be a representation of a hero from the mythic past. He wears a Corinthian helmet pushed up and resting on the back of his head. The helmet is elaborately decorated in relief with griffins on the bowl and rams' heads on the cheek pieces and is similiar to a type worn by the goddess Athena. His eyes would have been inlaid in another material. The head has been worked on for insertion into a statue.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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