Cast of the head of Titus
Details
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Title
Cast of the head of Titus
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Associated place
Lower Saxony (Göttingen) (place of creation) -
Date
2001 - 2005 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Acquired by exchange with the Archaeological Institute of the Georg August-University in Göttingen, 2005.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.65
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Catalogue text
Hanover, Wallmoden Collection, on long-term loan to the Archaeological Institute of the Georg August University in Göttingen.
From the collection of Palazzo Salviati in Rome.
Head of the emperor Titus (r. AD 79-81), re-cut from a head of Nero.
Produced by the restoration workshop at the Archaeological Institute (Ms. Jorun Ruppel). Modern: nose, right ear and edge of the left. The head is mounted on an ancient bust (not part of cast) to which it does not originally belong.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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