Funerary bust of a man wearing a headband with rosette flowers
Date1st century CE
Periodearly Roman Empire
Object GeographyCyprus
CultureCypriot
Geography NotesOne of ten busts said to have been "found in different tombs in the necropolis" at Golgoi, Cyprus
MediumLimestone with red paint
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.1607
This portrait head was burned in a funeral pyre. Such a bust may have been attached to a stone coffin (sarcophagus). The many thin lines on its surface are the result of plant roots growing around it, probably when it was inside a tomb chamber rather than above ground.
On View
Not on viewHeight: (8 13/16 in.) 22.4 cm
Width: (5 7/16 in.) 13.8 cm
Thickness: (5 1/4 in.) 13.3 cm
Head
Height (face; to top of hair): (6 11/16 in.) 17 cm
Width (cheek to cheek): (4 5/16 in.) 11 cm
Width (ear to ear): (5 3/8 in.) 13.7 cm
Wreath
Width: (3/4 in.) 1.87 cm
Width (at back): (1/4 in.) 0.6 cm
Mount pole
Length: (2 1/8 in.) 5.4 cm
Diameter: (1/2 in.) 1.29 cm
Medium Details
Color
Stone: 2.5Y 8/2 (pale yellow) to 2.5Y 8/1 (white)
Paint: 10R 5/4 (weak red)
Inclusions
n/a
50 BC-AD150
first half of the 6th century BCE
second quarter of the 6th c. BCE
325-50 BC
late 19th Century
325-50 BC
