Head of Homer (Epimenides type)
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
Roman copy of a Greek original from the mid-5th century B.C.
Material and technique:
Parian marble
Origin:
Purchased in Rome
Inventory:
Inv. MB 123
A portrait of the blind poet to whom, according to tradition, we owe the Iliad and the Odyssey. This piece, characterized by a complicated hairstyle, is a good copy of the head of a statue raised around 460 B.C. in the great bard’s honor.
