Head of young boy (inv. no. 24-03-26-115)
Item
- Other Media
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24-03-26-115_fig. 1 - Description
- The fragment preserves only the back portion of the hairstyle, distinguished by long, smooth locks with gently wavy ends, separated from one another by drill-cut grooves. It probably belongs to a children or an Erote.
- Typology
- Ideal sculpture
- Definition
- Head of young boy (inv. no. 24-03-26-115)
- Collection
- Dougga, storerooms
- Inventory number
- 24-03-26-115
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Date
- Second half of the 2nd century C.E.
- Material
- White marble, slightly translucent and coarse-grained, with a faint greyish tone, similar to Pentelic marble
- Dimensions
- H 12,5 cm
- Analytical methods
- VIL
- VIS
- UV
- MO VIS
- MO UV
- Imaging
- Videomicroscopic observation (11 analysis points) reveals a thick white-yellow preparatory layer, particularly well preserved in the recesses of the locks and on the skin of the neck in the lower right area. Orange traces on the top of the skull and brown traces at the level of the occiput are also documented
- Under painting traces
- no
- Pigments
- Brown, orange, and yellow
- Binder
- n.d.
- Stratigraphy
- Whitish-yellow preparatory layer
- Shading
- A darker tone in the recesses of the locks.
- Metallic traces
- no
- Tools marks
- no
- Background colour
- no
- Apparent marble parts
- no
- Restorations
- no
- Polychromy technique
- A thick white preparatory layer underlies the colours, which serve to distinguish the hair—rendered as a bright blond—from the face, while respecting anatomical features and shadow effects.
- Anthropomorphic/realistic
- Simplified anthropomorphic
- Polychromy type
- The polychrome rendering appears to follow a visual code that imitates and respects natural appearance.