Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1314: Head of a Warrior from a Sarcophagus Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Head of a Warrior from a Sarcophagus , 1943.1314,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 09, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/291279. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1314 Title Head of a Warrior from a Sarcophagus Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture Date mid 3rd century CE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe Period Roman Imperial period, Middle Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/291279 Physical Descriptions Medium Pentelic marble Dimensions actual: 12.7 cm (5 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.1314 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 1990122 Head of a Warrior Antonine or possibly early Severan period. The nose is damaged, and there are chips over the right brow, left ear, and back of the helmet. There are drillmarks in the interior corners of the eyes, nostrils, edges of the mouth, ears, and curls of hair. The surface has been reworked (Guntram Koch). The helmeted head is tilted back and to the left. The face has a pained expression, with furrowed brow and a slightly opened, Skopaic mouth. There are many parallels for this head, which came from an Attic battle sarcophagus. One (tilted downward instead of upward) belongs to the Greek on horseback, raising his sword to strike, on the Attic sarcophagus with Amazonomachy in the Museum at Thessaloniki (Giuliano, 1962, p. 44, no. 217, photograph on cover). A similarly helmeted head of identical dimensions, with a polish to the surfaces, was thought to be perhaps an Amazon from a sarcophagus of the late Antonine to early Severan periods (Johnson, 1931, p. 120, no. 243). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 256 (checklist). Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 134, no. 122 Carola Kintrup, Die attischen Sarkophage, vol. 2: Amazonomachie - Schlacht - Epinausimachie, Deutschen Archäologischen Institute/Gebr. Mann Verlag (Berlin, 2016), pp. 141-142, 239, no. 83 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
