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MM Acc 0852 :: fragment, sculpture

Object description: Male head. Oval face with small, round chin. Small mouth with deeply carved corners. Upper lip is swollen (or is it a mustasch?). Marked cheekbones. Small, deeply set eyes with sculpted lids. No eyebrows. The hair is rendered by small notches. At the top of the head the hair is gathered in a thick braid, which falls down back of head.

Inventory number: MM Acc 0852
Serie nummer: 60856085
Object: fragmentfragment; sculpturesculpture
Object, Swedish: skulpturskulptur
Country - Findspot: Cyprus : Europe
Country, Swedish - Findspot: CypernCypern
Material: LimestoneLimestone; StoneStone
Material, Swedish: StenSten
Acquisition: From the collection of Carl Frisk, 1949.From%20the%20collection%20of%20Carl%20Frisk%2C%201949.
Description, Swedish: Huvud, kalkstenHuvud%2C%20kalksten
Description: Male head. Oval face with small, round chin. Small mouth with deeply carved corners. Upper lip is swollen (or is it a mustasch?). Marked cheekbones. Small, deeply set eyes with sculpted lids. No eyebrows. The hair is rendered by small notches. At the top of the head the hair is gathered in a thick braid, which falls down back of head.
NegNo: 4135D
Publications: - Bruun-Lundgren, M, Cypriots in Stone. Limestone Sculpture in Late Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus, Göteborgs universitet 2002, cat. no. V 32, Pl. 15c-d.
PhotoNegNo: 4135D-4138D. 6887-6888; Cneg 9476, 9477.
Height / Höjd: 27 cm27%20cm
Dimensions: H. 27.0.H.%2027.0.
Condition: Nose missing. Chipped and worn.
Original register: CyprusCyprus

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