Funerary portrait

Central Italy, ca. mid-1st century

Moulded terracotta, hollow, vent hole in the back of the head. The face was originally red polychrome.

H: 26.5 cm

UMP 8476

Purchased from Adolf Ginzel of Rome in 1886.

A strictly frontal funerary portrait of a young man with a wreath at his temples bearing a remote resemblance to a portrait of Emperor Claudius. The semi-circular nice around the head was also the edge of the mould. The Etruscan workshop tradition of funerary portraits concluded during this period.