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LSA-458 Under life-size head of young woman with crimped hair and encircling braids. Unknown provenance. Mid to late fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Province: Region:
Details: From collection of Baron Max von Heyl (Darmstadt), then Calmann collection, then Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Current Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 1947.100.51
OBJECT
Object: Head, separately worked Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Clothing: Hairstyle: Encircling braid(s) Height(cm): 26.7
Attributes: Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 330 Latest: 400
MAIN REFERENCE
Langlotz, E., Die Kunstsammlungen Baron Heyl, Darmstadt. Zweiter Teil
, Munich 1930, 4, no. 29, pl. 11

Delbrueck, R., Spätantike Kaiserporträts. Von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs , Leipzig 1933, 202-3, pls. 99-101(Aelia Flaccilla)

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