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The Brooklyn Black Head

Unknownca. 50 B.C.E.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York City, United States

Over life-size diorite (black) head of a man broken from standing statute. Individual face with deep upper eyelids, thin lips, square chin and shallow furrows running from nose. Hair arranged in curls with strands hanging down in front of each ear. Flesh areas polished, hair mat. Rear pillar (mat) with pyramidal top and beginning of a scene of deities. Condition: Major part of nose lost, break extends into upper lip. Otherwise intact. Preserved to base of neck.

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