In a masonry Byz. wash-trough, E. Flank, "Temple of Julius Caesar"
Period
Republican Roman Period
Date Made
99-0 BCE
Section
Mediterranean
Materials
Marble (Stone)
Iconography
Male Head
Description
Male portrait. White marble. Broken off at neck; back crown and proper left temple broken away; also top of right ear and tip of nose. Some chipping. Square owel hole in back-break. Clean shaven, looking frontally, with assymetrical bones. High forehead with frown wrinkles, also deep wrinkles from nose to corners of mouth. Slight rill hole indentation. Eyes wide open with unwrinkled lids. Probably provincial work; not from a death mask, but instead showing clear direct features. Found in a masonry Byz. wash-trough, E. flank.
Romano, Irene B. Classical Sculpture; Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006. See: p. 167, no. 84
Adriani, A. "Minturno-Catalogo delle sculture trovate negli anni 1931-33." Notizie degli Scavi di Antichita 6, no. 14. (1938): 190-211. See: p. 195, no. 44, fig. 24
Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Roberto Paribeni, and International Mediterranean Research Association. Mostra d'arte antica: organizzata dal Ministero dell' Educazione Nazionale e dall' Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi Mediterranei. Rome: Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1932. See:
