Head of Bearded Banqueter
525–500 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This terracotta head of a man features wide, almond-shaped eyes and a serene smile beneath a long mustache. The man has a long beard and wears a wreath with leaves protruding above and below a string of fruit or beads. His head is covered by a pointed cap. This fragment probably belonged to a figure of a banqueter, or perhaps even Dionysos, the god of wine.
