Cast of a portrait head of Licinius II, from Kyzikos
Details
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Title
Cast of a portrait head of Licinius II, from Kyzikos
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Associated place
Kyzikos (find spot of original) -
Date
2001 - 2009 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Doctor Thomas Mannack, 2009.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.104
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Catalogue text
Formerly Edincik, private collection.
Probably from Kyzikos.
Portrait of boy Caesar, Licinius II with short-cropped hair and sideburns, wearing a laurel wreath. The head was probably recut from an earlier portrait.In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
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