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LSA-406 Portrait head of Empress. From the environs of Rome. Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Formerly in the collection of the Count Siciliano di Gentili, Viterbo
Current Location: Rome, Museo dell'Alto Medioevo, inv. 2603
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Turban Height(cm): 28
Attributes: Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 350 Latest: 450
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Orange, H.P., 'Ein unbekanntes Porträt einer spätantiken Kaiserin', Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 1(1962), 49-52

Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 215-16, no. I 55, pl. 60.2-4

Meischner, J., 'Das Porträt der Galla Placidia im Museo dell’alto medioevo, Rom', Latomus 50 (1991), 861-864, 861-864, pl .9

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