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| Eastern ... Augustus ... AE Male head r. Laurel wreath in dot border Theater East; Manhole 3
Excavation Date: 5/18/1981
Notebook 739, p. 11
Basket 139, NB739 B139 P11, . Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation ... 25 BC - 14 BC ... Roman Republican Copper/Bronze As of Augustus, Eastern Mint (25 BC - 14 BC) |
| Broken off at the root of the neck, nose and chin damaged.
A Julio-Claudian portrait of a man, summary but effective.
Pentelic marble.
Drilled for setting on base June 1950. Finished From pit in floor ... Julio-Claudian period ... Portrait Head of Male Figure |
| The head is considerably over life-size, broken off below the beard; the tip of the nose is missing, and the back of the head has a rectangular patch of hair (doweled on, with the dowel still in place) ... Early Antonine period ... AJA 37 (1933), p. 309, pl. 38.2 ... Agora I, no. 28, pp. 38-41, pl. 19 ... Hesperia Suppl. 22 (1988), p. 81, n. 89. |
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