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LSA-970 Portrait head for insertion of young woman with broad encircling braid. From Rome. Mid-fourth century.










PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details:
Current Location: Private collection? Rome
OBJECT
Object: Head, separately worked Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Clothing: n/a Hairstyle: Encircling braid(s) Height(cm): 31
Attributes: Beard: n/a
SUBJECT
Honorand: Position: Gender: Female
Awarder: Position:
DATE
Earliest: 320 Latest: 360
MAIN REFERENCE
Albizzati, C. 'Quattro sculture dell'ultimo periodo romano', Historia. Studi storici per l'Antichità classica 3, Milan 1929, 401-406, figs. 1-2

Heintze, H. von ‘Ein spätantikes Mädchenportät in Bonn. Zur stilitischen Entwicklung des Frauenbildnisses im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 14, Münster 1971, 64, no. I 7 (first third of fourth century)

Schade, K., Frauen in der Spä̈tantike: Status und Repräsentation , Mainz 2004, 178, no. 15, pl. 31.4-5

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