/internal/media/dispatcher/838813/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Alexander the Great or Helios, the sun god2nd century A.D. or 19th centuryHeight x length (of face): 48 x 24 cm (18 7/8 x 9 7/16 in.)Marble from Carrara in northwest ItalyCatharine Page Perkins Fund95.680Turned violently upward and to its own left, this head of Alexander the Great as Helios, god of the sun, was carved to be let into a statue of nearly colossal proportions. The divine ruler was probably represented in the heroic nude with a cloak or aegis about the shoulders, concealing the join of the neck and shoulders. A ruler's rolled fillet encircles the head behind the leonine locks which enframe the face.
(E.P. Warren: modern; Ariel Herrmann: by Albicini (?); J. B. Ward-Perkins: Carrara marble)
Scientific Analysis:
Harvard Lab No. HI216: Isotope ratios - delta13C +2.02 / delta18O -1.65, Attribution - Carrara, Doliana 2, Justification - Fine-grained marble.Sculpture48.000000000053.300000000036.000000000024.000000000015113001