Portrait head of bearded man with tall brow from chlamys statue (?). Sardis (Lydia). Fifth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Sardis
Province:
Lydia
Region:
Asia Minor
Details:
Colonnaded road, south stylobate
Current Location:
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, inv. 1674 (exc. inv. 61.18/3398)
OBJECT
Object:
Head
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
No
Clothing:
Hairstyle:
Wreath-style
Height(cm):
30
Attributes:
scroll
Beard:
Bearded, long
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Position:
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
400
Latest:
500
MAIN REFERENCE
Hanfmann, G. M. A. 'The fourth campaign at Sardis (1961)' , Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 166, Baltimore April 1962, 45 with fn. 73 and fig. 37 (late fourth or early fifth c.)
Cahill, N., Lidyalılar ve Dünyaları. The Lydians and their World, Istanbul 2010, 575, no. 219 (inscription on head)
Inan, J. and E. Rosenbaum, Roman and Early Byzantine Portrait Sculpture in Asia Minor, Oxford 1966, 166-7, no. 220, pl. 180.3-4 (mid fifth century)
Hanfmann, G.M.A., Sculpture from Sardis : the finds through 1975, Cambridge MA 1978, no. 92, figs. 206-207 (late third c.)
