Porträtkopf eines bärtigen Mannes

This portrait of an elderly man with a thick head of curly hair and a short beard belongs to a group of works that can be traced back to a single workshop; most were discovered at Ephesus and the central work of this group is the portrait of Eutropios. They all share a reduction of individual features, elongated heads, an emphasis on the eyes and prominent eyeballs, deep nasolabial grooves and a small mouth. A number of similarities to a depiction of Boethius, who was Consul in AD 487, on an ivory diptych helps date the group.