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LSA-256 Portrait head of woman with crown-braid hairstyle. Perhaps from Smyrna. Early fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Smyrna Province: Asia Region: Asia Minor
Details: Acquired by Arndt in 1902 who said that it came from Smyrna
Current Location: Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. 1938
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Other Height(cm): 32
Attributes: Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 295 Latest: 325
MAIN REFERENCE
Johansen, F. , Catalogue of the Roman Portraits III; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, (Copenhagen 1995), no. 75

Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 171-72, no. I 6, pl. 25

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