Cast of a portrait head of a man from Aphrodisias
Details
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Title
Cast of a portrait head of a man from Aphrodisias
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Associated place
Aphrodisias (Discovered by P. Gaudin in Aphrodisias, Turkey, at the Baths of Hadrian in 1904. Donated to the museum in 1908.) (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
29 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2006.
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Museum location
Museum department
Cast Gallery
Accession no.
CG.H.76
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Catalogue text
Portrait head with curly hair, balding above the forehead, and full
beard. An abbreviated invocation is inscribed on top of head in Greek
for ‘Christ was born to Mary. God help (me)!’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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