Cast of the head of a Tetrarch, probably Galerius, from Gamzigrad
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Title
Cast of the head of a Tetrarch, probably Galerius, from Gamzigrad
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Associated place
Serbia (Found in 1993 in Romuliana (mod. Gamzigrad), Serbia, in the baths of the southeast quarter the city.) (find spot of original) -
Date
2001 - 2006 -
Material and technique
plaster, painted to imitate porphyry
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2006.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.H.71
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Catalogue text
The head wears a laurel wreath, decorated with gems and busts. A
hand from a Victory (now lost) holds the wreath at the back.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.82, illus. p.82
