Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1312. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Antiquities] ROMAN. Marble portrait head. 1st-3rd century AD. Surviving height 23cm. Fragment of a life-size white marble bust, showing the left side of the face from forehead to chin, with most of the incised eye and the lower earlobe remaining. A portrait of an elderly man with receding hairline and full beard, probably a Greek philosopher, most likely Socrates. Only fragmentary, but a choice portrait. ($500)