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LSA-568 Portrait statuette of Empress. From Cyprus. Late fourth to early fifth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Province: Region: Near East, with Cyprus
Details: Cyprus
Current Location: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Médailles
OBJECT
Object: Other Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Clothing: cloak/mantle, palla; tunic, sleeved; tunic/chiton Hairstyle: Central braid Height(cm): 78
Attributes: codex/book; diadem, jewelled Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 320 Latest: 350
MAIN REFERENCE
Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 204-6, no. I.46, pl. 54.1-2 (Theodosian)

Delbrueck, R., Spätantike Kaiserporträts. Von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs , Leipzig 1933, 163-5, pls. 62-4, fig. 58 (Helena)

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