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Portrait of Philip the Younger

Date

about A.D. 235

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Roman

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

A hollow bronze head and neck of a youth. The head is heavily restored resulting in distortions of the facial features; the lower face has been crushed. The young man has a round, fleshy face and weak chin. The eyes are deep set with incised irises and pupils. The eyebrows and the short hair are rendered with short V-shaped pairs of incised lines. There is a projecting flange around his cranium that disguises the sloping, hollow back of his head.

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