Head of a barbarian

Testa di barbaro
Type: 
Sculpture
Year: 
IInd century BC
Material and technique: 
Peperino
Origin: 
Rome, Via Tiburtina - near the Church of San Lorenzo (1878)
Inventory: 
MC2084

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Sala Colonne - Complesso di San Lorenzo

A coherent group of sculpture in peperine (a stone from the Albani Hills), broken into fragments which were then reused in a renaissance wall, discovered near the Church of San Lorenzo.
Several of these statues, brought together in the Capitoline collections, represent female figures, Orpheus among the animals, and a barbarian; they are carefully worked, using Hellenistic models of the Pergamon school from the late IIIrd – early IVth centuries BC.