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LSA-560 Porphyry bust wearing cuirass. Rome or environs. Fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Recorded in the Barberini collection already in 1738
Current Location: Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, Sala dei Busti 383 inv. no. 598
OBJECT
Object: Bust Material: Porphyry Re-Use? No
Clothing: armour; cloak, chlamys Hairstyle: Short Height(cm): 69
Attributes: Beard: Clean-shaven
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Gender: Male
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 320 Latest: 400
MAIN REFERENCE
Ensoli, S. and E. La Rocca (eds.), Aurea Roma: dalla città pagana alla città cristiana, Roma 2000, 563-4, no. 220 (M. Bergmann and P. Liverani)

Donati, A. and G. Gentili, Costantino il Grande. La civiltà antica al bivio tra Occidente e Oriente, Milan 2005, 285 no.123 (P. Liverani)

L'Orange, H. P., Das spätantike Herrscherbild von Diokletian bis zu den Konstantin-Söhnen, 284-361 n. Chr. Das Römische Herrscherbild. III. Abteilung ; Bd. 4 , Berlin 1984, 136 (doubts antiquity of bust)

Helbig, W. (ed.), Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom. Vol. 1. Die päpstlichen Sammlungen im Vatikan und Lateran, Tübingen (4)1964, 1, no. 196 (H. von Heintze doubts antiquity)

Calza, R., Iconografia Romana Imperiale. Da Carausio a Giuliano (287-363 d. C.), Rome 1972, 285-7 no.197 pl.100, 358-9

Bracker, J., Adunanza pubblica del 1 luglio 1976, Rendiconti. Atti della Pontificia Accademia romana di archeologia 48, 1975-76, pp. 23-4, 23-4

Delbrueck, R., Spätantike Kaiserporträts. Von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs , Leipzig 1933, 136-7, pls. 48-9, fig. 37

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