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LSA-755 Portrait head of Empress in Lateran-Louvre ('Ariadne-Amalasuntha') type. From Rome. Late fifth to early sixth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: possiby from area of Lateran, recorded already in 16th c.
Current Location: Museo della Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? Other
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: n/a Height(cm): 14
Attributes: diadem, jewelled; other Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Ariadne Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 480 Latest: 525
MAIN REFERENCE
Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 220-22, no. I 61, pls. 63.3-4 and 64.3-4.

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