Statue
| Object Number: | MS215 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Rome Gallery Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Roman |
| Provenience: | Turkey (Country) Caesarea Mazaca |
| Period: | Roman Period |
| Date Made: | 250-300 CE |
| Early Date: | 250 |
| Late Date: | 300 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Marble (Stone) |
| Technique: | Carved |
| Iconography: | Priest Head |
| Height: | 31.5 cm |
| Width: | 24.5 cm |
| Depth: | 26 cm |
| Credit Line: | Museum Purchase, 1895 |
Description
White marble, head of priest of imperial cult. Hair is cape like mass chiseled in long loose wavy strands with shallow surface strokes, swinging forward on neck behind ears. In front curving bangs, forked in center and brushed somewhat to both sides. Narrow fillet down back as one with neck. Eleven tiny busts in decreasing sizes from front rest on front of band divided by vertical ridges. Hair inside circle of band is more roughly chiseled. Full beard and moustache chiseled in finer lines on roughened surface. Two deep drill holes at corners of mouth. Heavy plastic brows, roughened, nicked and undercut. Eyes wide with low hanging upper lids and semi-circular gouges at neck just below chin, Nose badly broken; figures on crown badly worn.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| The Classical World: Rome ( Apr 1958 - 1975) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Italian Gallery (28 Mar 1951 - 1958) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Roman Sculpture Gallery (1975 - 2000) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Classical World - Roman World (15 Mar 2003) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] 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.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 218, no. 108 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Turfa, Jean M., and Romano, Irene B., and Brownlee, Ann B., and White, Donald J. 2002. Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 51, no. 74 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Horne, Lee C. 1985. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 40, fig. 24 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Beck, Herbert. 1983. Spatantike und fruhes Christentum: Ausstellung im Liebieghaus, Museum alter Plastik, Frankfurt am Main: 16. Dezember 1983 bis 11 Marz 1984.. Frankfurt am Main. Das Liebieghaus. pg. 698 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 495-496, fig. 99 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1981. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in public collections in the U.S and Canada.. Malibu. J. Paul Getty Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 322, fig. 276 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1964. "Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections Open to the Public..." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia. American Philosophical Society. Vol. 108. no. 2. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 110, fig. 25 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Muller, Valentin. 1932. "A Portrait of the Late Roman Empire". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 23. no. 1. pg. 45-54 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 45-54, fig. 3-4 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] Luce, Stephen B. 1921. Catalogue of the Mediterranean Section.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 173, no. 28 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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