Statue
Object Number:
32-36-63
Current Location:
Rome Gallery
Culture:
Roman
Provenience:
Italy
Latium
Minturnae
Locus:
In a masonry Byz. wash-trough, E. Flank, "Temple of Julius Caesar"
Period:
Republican Roman Period
Date Made:
99-0 BC
Early Date:
99
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Marble (Stone)
Iconography:
Male Head
Description:
Male portrait. White marble. Broken off at neck; back crown and proper left temple broken away; also top of right ear and tip of nose. Some chipping. Square owel hole in back-break. Clean shaven, looking frontally, with assymetrical bones. High forehead with frown wrinkles, also deep wrinkles from nose to corners of mouth. Slight rill hole indentation. Eyes wide open with unwrinkled lids. Probably provincial work; not from a death mask, but instead showing clear direct features. Found in a masonry Byz. wash-trough, E. flank.
Credit Line:
Minturnae (Italy) Expedition, 1931
Other Number:
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Roman Sculpture Gallery (1975 - 2000)
Roman World (15 Mar 2003)
Bibliography:
[Catalogue] Romano, Irene B. 2006. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. : Page/Fig./Plate: 167:84
[Book] Ackland Art Center. 1970. "Ancient Portraits: A show of Greek and Etruscan and Roman sculptures.".
[Article] Adriani, A. 1938. Minturno-Catalogo delle sculture trovate negli anni 1931-33. Notizie Degli Scavi di Antichita. 6 (14): 190-211. : Page/Fig./Plate: 195 no.44 fig. 24
[Book] Strong, E. 1934. vol. 4 (1933-1934). : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. 3, fig 6
[Catalogue] Museo nazionale di Villa Giulia, et al. 1932. Mostra d'arte antica: organizzata dal Ministero dell' Educazione Nazionale e dall' Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi Mediterranei.
[Book] Praechter, Karl. 1932. "Il papiro Vaticano greco II". vol. 8. p. 567.
[Book] Strong, E. 1932. vol. 3. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 9
[Book] Technau, Werner. 1932. vol. 47. p. 494-5.
[Book] Johnson, Jotham. "The road to empire". vol. 154 (June). pp. 302-3.
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