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LSA-574 Portrait head for insertion of Empress. From Rome? Fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Acquired from the collection of Quirici in Monza in 1919 but originally probably from Rome
Current Location: Museo Archeologico "Paolo Giovio", Como, inv. no. E 2951
OBJECT
Object: Head, separately worked Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Clothing: Hairstyle: Encircling braid(s) Height(cm): 33.8
Attributes: diadem, jewelled; diadem, pearl-edged; earrings Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 325 Latest: 400
MAIN REFERENCE
Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 187-8, no. I 27, pl. 40.2-3

Delbrueck, R., Spätantike Kaiserporträts. Von Constantinus Magnus bis zum Ende des Westreichs , Leipzig 1933, 169-71, pls. 69-70

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