Object Number |
E976 |
Current Location |
Collections Storage |
Culture |
Roman |
Provenience |
Egypt | Coptos |
Locus |
Steps of Isis Temple |
Date Made |
211-217 CE |
Section |
Egyptian |
Materials |
Granite |
Iconography |
Caracalla | Head |
Description |
Colossal Head of block-like shape with scowling visage and a rectangular back pillar. Hair is treated with bead-like globules arragned in rows framing forehead and continuing on sides and top of head. A wide flat diadem with the uraeus at the front encircles the head. The short beard is treated the same way as the hair. (Irene B. Romano, Classical Sculpture, no. 110, pp. 224-225.) Head of Caracalla. Once attached to a back pillar. Slight indication of mustache blending with facial planes. Fleshy face smooth but not polished. Forehead sculptured into scowl over deep-set irises and gouged pupils; nose thick. Mouth has thick lower lip and downward turn. Broken off diagonally at neck. |
Height |
51 cm |
Width |
34 cm |
Depth |
52 cm |
Credit Line |
Petrie Exploration; subscription of Mr & Mrs. Charles H. Cramp, 1894 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Romano, Irene B. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006. See: p. 224, no. 110 |
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Horne, Lee C. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1985. Page/Fig./Plate: 40 |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Romans and Barbarians. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976. |
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Rose Art Museum. Art of Late Antique. Brandeis University, 1968. |
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Ranke, Hermann. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 15, no. 2-3. (1950): 21-109. See: p. 58, fig. 34 |
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Graindor, Paul. Bustes et statues portraits d'Egypte romaine. 1939. Page/Fig./Plate: 145-6 |
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Milne. History of Egypt Under Roman Rule V. V. 1898. Page/Fig./Plate: 71 |
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Petrie, William M. Koptos. 1896. Page/Fig./Plate: 23 |
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Stevenson, Sara Y. "Some Sculpture from Koptos in Philadelphia." American Journal of Archaeology and the History of the Fine Arts 10. (1895): 347-351. See: pp. 347-51 |
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