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LSA-2632 Portrait head of Socrates (Type B). Italy. Fourth or fifth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Province: Region: Italy, provenance unknown
Details: purchased in Italy
Current Location: Princeton Art Museum, inv. no. Y1990-84
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Clothing: Hairstyle: Long, covers ears Height(cm): 28.1
Attributes: Beard: Bearded, long
SUBJECT
Honorand: Socrates Position: Intellectuals, Lawyers and Doctors Gender: Male
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 300 Latest: 450
MAIN REFERENCE
Ridgway, B. S., Greek Sculpture in the Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton 1994, 64-7, no. 19

Richter, G.M.A., The Portraits of the Greeks, London 1965, 115, no. 25

Danguillier, C., Typologische Untersuchungen zur Dichter- und Denkerikonographie in römischen Darstellungen von der mittleren Kaiserzeit bis in die Spätantike, Oxford 2001, 258-9, no. 48 (Tetrarchic-Constantinian)

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