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LSA-512 Portrait head in the Vienna-Izmir type, probably of Licinius. From Asia Minor? Early fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Province: Region:
Details: purchased at Sothebys (Sothebys Antiquities 18 May 1987, no. 206)
Current Location: Australian National University Museum, Canberra
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Clothing: Hairstyle: Height(cm): 22.9
Attributes: Beard:
SUBJECT
Honorand: Licinius Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 300 Latest: 325
MAIN REFERENCE
Smith, R.R.R.,'The public image of Licinius I: Portrait sculpture and imperial ideology in the early fourth century', JRS 87, 1997, 189-90, pl. 6.2

Sothebys London, Sothebys London Antiquities Monday 18 May 1987, London 1987, no. 206, pl.18

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