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Chalcedony Portrait Bust of a Young Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011

Chalcedony Portrait Bust of a Young Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2011
Title: Chalcedony portrait bust of a young woman

Medium; Technique: Chalcedony

Culture: Roman

Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or early Antonine

Date: ca. A.D. 130–140

Dimensions: H. 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)

Classification: Gems

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907

Accession Number: 07.286.125


Description:

The woman's hairstyle closely resembles that found on life-sized marble portraits of Roman matrons of the period, who closely followed the fashions of the imperial court.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

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