Cast of a portrait head from the tetrarchic period, from Alba Fucens
Details
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Title
Cast of a portrait head from the tetrarchic period, from Alba Fucens
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Associated place
Brussels (place of purchase)Alba Fucens (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
29 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2009.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.103
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Catalogue text
From Alba Fucens, found in 1959 in a slab-lined tomb outside the city walls.
Portrait of older man with short-cropped hair, stubble beard, and strongly manipulated, expressive features.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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