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Portrait of a man
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Portrait of a man

White marble, early 1st cent. A.D.
Pompeii, House of the Gilded Cupids
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 55514

Realistic portrait of a man in his maturity, whose features are rendered with special care. Under the neck is an iron dowel, indicating that the sculpture originally stood on a pillar.