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LSA-2440 Inscribed portrait tondo of Demosthenes. Italy. Fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Province: Region: Italy, provenance unknown
Details: Unknown. But appears already in collection archives in 1709.
Current Location: Rome, Villa Doria Pamphili, Garage on west wall (in 1979)
OBJECT
Object: Tondo Material: Re-Use? Other
Clothing: cloak/mantle, himation Hairstyle: Brushed forward Height(cm): 50
Attributes: codex/book Beard: Bearded, short
SUBJECT
Honorand: Demosthenes Position: Intellectuals, Lawyers and Doctors Gender: Male
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 300 Latest: 400
MAIN REFERENCE
Calza, R. et al. (eds.), Antichità di Villa Doria Pamphilj, Rome 1977, 268-9, no. 325, pl. 173

Richter, G.M.A., The Portraits of the Greeks, London 1965, II, 217, no. 9, figs. 1403 and 1409

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