100 AD or later. Roman-style. Rectangular Roman-style marble head and torso of a youth with two-tiered curling locks, simple, boyish features, a thick neck and prominent pectoral muscles. The hairstyle is suggestive of the god Apollo, the Graeco-Roman deity of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, poetry, the Sun and light. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Commonly depicted in antiquity, he remained an important figure in European art, especially in the renaissance and early modern period. N.B. this piece may be either of Roman, renaissance or later date. Good condition.Size: L:250mm / W:205mm ; 3.8 kg; Provenance: From an old British collection formed in the 1990s;