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LSA-687 Colossal portrait head of Licinius (Vienna-Izmir type). From Ephesus. Early fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Ephesus Province: Asia Region: Asia Minor
Details: Theatre, stage building, in the central passage beneath the stage building, 1897
Current Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv. AS I 932
OBJECT
Object: Head, separately worked Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Short-cropped Height(cm): 86
Attributes: Beard: Bearded, stubble
SUBJECT
Honorand: Licinius Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 300 Latest: 325
MAIN REFERENCE
Inan, J. and E. Rosenbaum, Roman and Early Byzantine Portrait Sculpture in Asia Minor, Oxford 1966, 149-150, no. 191, pl. 175.1-2

L'Orange, H. P., Studien zur Geschichte des spätantiken Porträts, Oslo 1933, 76-7, 144, no. 105, figs. 199-200

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