A Marble Relief Head of Marsyas, Roman Imperial, 2nd half of the 2nd/early 3rd Century A.D.

from a sarcophagus, tilted to his right and with an expression of pain on his face, the pupils drilled.

French private collection, acquired circa 1940

As shown, fresh chips on proper right shoulder and on right side of head.
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For sarcophagi depicting the myth of Marsyas and showing the old satyr hanging from a tree see G. Koch and H. Sichtermann, Römische Sarkophage, Munich, 1982, pp. 158-159, fig. 177-179.