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Porträtkopf: Römer

Römisch, Augusteisch, Letztes Viertel 1. Jh. v. Chr.

 

 

Römer

Depicted turning vigorously to the side, this head of a man aged around fifty was designed to be inserted into a toga statue. Note his sitter’s distinctive features combining a high forehead and thinning central parting, hollow cheeks, pointy chin and aquiline nose. Informed by likenesses of Julius Caesar, and the Late Republic’s repertoire of virtues (Lat. virtus), such portraits were very popular; the larger than life-sized statue may depict the owner of one of the villas situated on the Panayır dağ.

Location: Neue Burg, Ephesos Museum Plateau Athlet

Object data

Object Name

Porträtkopf

Culture

Römisch

Period

Augusteisch

Dated

Letztes Viertel 1. Jh. v. Chr.

Site

Ephesos , byzant. Stadtmauer beim Theater , Selçuk, Kleinasien, Türkei

Material

Marmor

Dimensions

H. 43 cm

Image rights

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung

Inv. No.

Antikensammlung, I 817

Provenance

Sultan, Abdul, Hamid, II.; Österreichische Ausgrabungen in Ephesos; Geschenk an Kaiser Franz Joseph; 1911 nachträglich inventarisiert

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