Shield portrait of balding and bearded man with straggly locks on brow. Italy. Fourth century?
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Province:
Region:
Italy, provenance unknown
Details:
Current Location:
Villa Doria Pamphili, Garage on east wall (in 1979)
OBJECT
Object:
Tondo
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
No
Clothing:
cloak/mantle, himation
Hairstyle:
Other
Height(cm):
53
Attributes:
Beard:
Bearded, short
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Position:
Intellectuals, Lawyers and Doctors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
120
Latest:
400
MAIN REFERENCE
Calza, R. et al. (eds.), Antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome 1977, 269-270, no. 326, pl. 74
Richter, G.M.A., The Portraits of the Greeks, London 1965, II, 214, figs. 1382-3 (dubious Aeschines)
Danguillier, C., Typologische Untersuchungen zur Dichter- und Denkerikonographie in römischen Darstellungen von der mittleren Kaiserzeit bis in die Spätantike, Oxford 2001, 250, no. 1 (Hadrianic to early Antonine)
