Head of a Mastiff with Studded Collar | Yale University Art Gallery

Late 2nd century A.D.

Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 10 5/8 in. (23 × 27 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III, in memory of Emily T. Vermeule
Accession Number: 2001.32.1
Culture: Roman
Period: Roman
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

From a British Collection; said to have been taken from an area around Rome

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson and Diana E.E. Kleiner, I Claudia Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996), 146, no. 80, ill

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