Marble portrait head of Antinoos
A marble portrait head of a young man with short, tightly curled hair swept across the brow, shown against a dark background on a plain pedestal. The face is worn, with the nose and lips eroded and surface chipping visible. The record identifies the subject as Antinoos, a Late Hadrianic-period portrait type, though the head itself carries no inscription confirming this.
Look closer: Chipping and surface loss along the left cheek and nose show the marble's age.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 130–138 CE
- Medium
- Marble
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 3000 × 4000 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 143).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Jonathan Kagan, 2010