  We have analyzed the total and nuclear SED for NGC 4261 and find that the
dominant process for the mid- and far-infrared emission in this object is
non-thermal emission from the active nucleus. Modeling the emission from the
optically detected 300 pc dust disk yields no significant disk contribution at
any wavelength. To explain the observations, either the disk has an inflated
inner region which partly absorbs the core, or the intrinsic core spectrum is
curved. The inner 10 pc of the disk can potentially be conceived as an
obscuring torus, albeit with optical depth around unity.
