Portrait head of young girl (variation of 'Fausta' type) mounted on bust. Art Market. Early fourth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
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Details:
Current Location:
unknown. Once Property of the Countess Adelheid Lanckoronska
OBJECT
Object:
Head
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Unknown
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Encircling braid(s)
Height(cm):
47.6
Attributes:
Beard:
n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Position:
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
290
Latest:
345
MAIN REFERENCE
Sothebys London, Catalogue of Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Irish Bronze Age, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Antiquities, on Monday 27th November 1967, London 1967, 32, no. 68
Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 90 (late third to Constantinian)
Bergmann, M., Studien zum römischen Porträt des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., Bonn 1977, 198, pl. 61.2 (320s)