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LSA-114 Portrait head (in two, separate pieces), of bearded man in 'Iamblichus-type. Athens. Later third century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Athens Province: Achaea Region: Greece and South Balkans (with Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace)
Details: Found in the 1870s on the south slope of the Acropolis, in a medieval wall ('Serpentzé-wall) (left side); not recorded (right side)
Current Location: Athens, National Museum, store rooms, inv. no. 581(left side); Paris, Musée Rodin, inv. no. 121 (right side)
OBJECT
Object: Head, separately worked Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Clothing: Hairstyle: Brushed forward Height(cm): 31(left side); 41 (right side)
Attributes: Beard: Bearded, long
SUBJECT
Honorand: Unknown Position: Gender: Male
Awarder: Unknown Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 270 Latest: 330
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Orange, H. P., Some remarks on late Greek portraiture, especially regarding the Jamblichos type, Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 6, 1975, 59-63, pp. 62-3 pl. VIII c, IX

Voutiras, E., Ein wiedergewonnenes attisches Porträt der Spätantike, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung, 96 (1981),

L'Orange, H. P., Studien zur Geschichte des spätantiken Porträts, Oslo 1933, pp. 41-3, 125-6 no. 64

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