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.
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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