Cast of the head from a portrait statue of Oecumenius, from Aphrodisias
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Title
Cast of the head from a portrait statue of Oecumenius, from Aphrodisias
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Associated place
Aphrodisias (Found in 2000 in the ‘Bishop’s Palace’, but belongs to statue found in situ in the north stoa of the ‘Bouleuterion Complex’ in Aphrodisias, Turkey.) (find spot of original) -
Date
early 21st century -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Association of Friends of Aphrodisias Trust, 2002.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.H.57
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Catalogue text
Head of governor Oecumenius from a chlamys statue. The inscribed
base also survives, in situ. An invocation is inscribed on top of the
head in Greek letters: ΧΜΓ, short for ‘Christ was born to Mary’.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)
