Head of Homer (Epimenides type)

Testa di Omero tipo Epimenide
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.

The hall

Room 5, devoted to Greek art