Cast of the portrait bust of L Caecilius lucundus, from Pompeii
Details
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Title
Cast of the portrait bust of L Caecilius lucundus, from Pompeii
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Associated place
Pompeii (Found in 1876 in Pompeii, in the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus, in the atrium in front of an anta of the tablinum.) (find spot of original) -
Date
2001 - 2006 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
34 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Acquired by exchange with the Cast Collection in Berlin (Stemmer, K.), 2006.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.73
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Catalogue text
Bust of a middle-aged man, with a wart on the lower left cheek,
protruding ears, and finely arranged, engraved hairstyle. The head
is identified as a portrait of the banker L. Caecilius Iucundus, the last
owner of the house in which the head was found, before the Vesuvian
eruption. It was set on a herm (not part of the cast) inscribed: GENIO
L(UCII) NOSTRI FELIX L(IBERTUS) – ‘Felix, a freedman, (sc. set this
up) to the Genius of our Lucius.’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)
Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.74, illus. p.74
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