Cast Gallery catalogue number: B159

Head of Pompey.

• Plaster cast: Height: 25 cm.
• Copy of a marble portrait head.
• The head:
  • is a Hadrianic work based on a contemporary portrait (106-48 BC).
  • was found in Rome, 'Licinian grave'.
  • was acquired by Copenhagen in 1887 from the collection of Count Tyszkiewiez in Rome.
  • is now in Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. 733.