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The looped hair arrangement evokes that of the young god Apollo as he was represented in statues dating to the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C. Archaizing figures were popular in the Roman period, and this head, probably set on a rectangular herm shaft, would have been a suitable garden ornament.
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Title: Marble head of Apollo
Period: Augustan or Julio-Claudian
Date: ca. 27 BCE–68 CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: H.: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of Jacques and Joyce de la Begassiere, 1959
Object Number: 59.77
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