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LSA-756 Portrait head of woman related to Lateran-Louvre ('Ariadne-Amalasuntha') type. From Rome. Late fifth to sixth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Piazza di S. Maria Monti
Current Location: Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori, inv. no. 865
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? Other
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Other Height(cm): 25
Attributes: diadem, jewelled; other Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Ariadne or Amalasuntha or other high-ranking woman 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, 219-20, no. I 60, pls. 63.1 and 64.1-2

Fittschen, Klaus and P. Zanker, Katalog der Porträts in den Capitolischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, Band III , Mainz 1983, 36-8, no. 39, pls. 49-50

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