14A018
DOUBLE-HEADED HERM
OF SOPHOCLES AND EURIPIDES
Roman Gaul, 1st-early 2nd century A.D.
Marble, Height: 25.5 cm.

A provincial sculpture, in brown-patinated marble, pairing two bearded male heads, one wearing a taenia. The bare-headed half is akin to the third portrait type of the Greek tragic poet Sophocles. The half with taenia may represent the tragic poet Euripides, and is perhaps a reduced copy of the Farnese Type, whose original, dated c. 270 B.C., survives today in Copenhagen (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. no. 608).

Provenance: Professor Bruno Tausig Collection, Germany.

For comparison, see: R. Belli Pasqua, Museo Nazionale Romano (1988), no. R 333; D. Bonamone, Museo Nazionale Romano (1987), no. R 13 (Euripides); G.M.A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks (1965), pp. 130ff. (on Sophocles and Euripides); E. Voutiras, Forschungen zur Villa Albani II (1990), pp. 168-170.

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