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LSA-757 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: probably from Rome, acquired in 1911
Current Location: Louvre, Paris, inv. no. RF 1525
OBJECT
Object: Head Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Other Height(cm): 25.7
Attributes: diadem, jewelled; other Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Ariadne Position: Imperial Family Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 490 Latest: 520
MAIN REFERENCE
Schade, K., Frauen in der Spätantike--Status und Repräsentation, Mainz 2003, 223-4, no. I 62, pl. 63.2

Delbrueck, R., 'Porträts byzantinischer Kaiserinnen', Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Mitteilungen 28 , Berlin 1913, 319-24

MacClanan, A., Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses. Image and Empire, New York 2002, 83-4

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