Eastern Figure with a Phrygian Cap
CultureRoman
Date2nd century C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/2 inches (31.75 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-146
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 104
Collections
ProvenanceEttore Alberici, Rome, by June 18, 1932;
Purchased from Alberici by the dealer Marcello Jandolo, Rome, June 18, 1932;
Purchased from Jandolo, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
Cornelius Vermeule, “Ten Greek and Roman Portraits in Kansas City,” Apollo 99, no. 147 (May 1974): 317-18, fig. 7.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 124.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 20, fig. 53.
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