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LSA-143 Headless statue of man wearing late-antique toga. Athens. Later fifth century










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Athens Province: Achaea Region: Greece and South Balkans (with Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace)
Details: Athens, Agora, built into a modern wall ca. 7 meters north of the northeast corner of the so-called 'Palace of the Giants'
Current Location: Athens, National Museum (Agora Museum, north wall of Attalos-Stoa), inv. no. S 657
OBJECT
Object: Statue Material: Marble Re-Use? Other
Clothing: lorum; toga, late antique; tunic, colobium; tunic, sleeved Hairstyle: Height(cm): 133
Attributes: Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand: Unknown Position: Gender: Male
Awarder: Unknown Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 450 Latest: 500
MAIN REFERENCE
Gehn, U., Ehrenstatuen in der Spätantike. Chlamydati und Togati, Wiesbaden 2012, 465-9 cat. no. O 37

Harrison, E. B., Portrait Sculpture: The Athenian Agora I, Princeton, N. J. 1953, pp. 79-80

Kollwitz, J., Oströmische Plastik der theodosianischen Zeit, Berlin 1941, pp. 91-2, 112 no. 19

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