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Roman Portraiture.
ever, a head found at Carthage now in the Bardo museum
in Tunis; its features bear no likeness to those of our head,
wherefore the identification must be abandoned.
Bilkdtavler pl. LXV. A. B. 51-52. Bernoulli: R6m. Ikon. II 3 pp. 160
and 187. Gf. table of coins III 14. Fr. Poulsen, Journ. Rom. Stud. VI 1916
p. 52 seqq. and pls. IX-X. G. Lippold: Antike Skulpt. der Glyptothek Ny
Carlsberg p. 31 and fig. 42. The Carthage head published by Merlin, Mon.
Piot XL 1944 p. 135 seqq.
770. (I. N. 1406). A Roman of the middle of the ith century A.D.
Head. Greek marble.
II. 0.40, H. of face 0.185. The tip of the nose, the right ear and a
small part of the left restored in plaster. The surface for a great
part covered by sinter. The occiput flat and roughly modelled. For
insertion into a statue. Acquired 1895 from the estate of the art
dealer Martinetti at Rome.
It is an elderly man with a lined, powerful face, enormous
eyebrows, deep folds downwards from the wings of the
nose and a protuding lower lip. The eyeballs are large with
small pupils, the beard stippled, the brows roughly fluted,
the thick hair has locks in low relief with curving ends.
Related heads are on the reliefs of the Arch of Constantine,
but the modelling gives, it a still greater likeness to the
colossal head of Constantins II in the Conservatori palace,
and this brings us as far as the middle of the 4th century.
The size of the head might suggest a famous man.
Billedtavler pl. LXV. 1’Orange: Spatant. Portr. p. 53 No. 5, p. 54, p. 130
No. 74 and figs. 142 and 144. R. Delbruck: Spatantike Kaiserportrats p. 142;
cf. pls. 52-54.
771. (I. N. 1475). Portrait of the emperor Valentinian I. Head. M.
H. 0.33, of the face alone 0.22. The head has been split from a
statue and the larger part of the left side of the face is missing. The
central part of the diadem and the left ear broken off. Parts of both
brows, the nose and adjoining parts of the face, the central part of
the mouth and chin, part of the right cheek patched in plaster. Thus
only hair, diadem, forehead and the eye with the enormous pupil are
well preserved. Acquired 1896 from Rome.
The diadem proves that it is an emperor, the mask-like
expression that it originates from the 4th century. The
modelling, hair style and form of diadem as well as the age
536
ever, a head found at Carthage now in the Bardo museum
in Tunis; its features bear no likeness to those of our head,
wherefore the identification must be abandoned.
Bilkdtavler pl. LXV. A. B. 51-52. Bernoulli: R6m. Ikon. II 3 pp. 160
and 187. Gf. table of coins III 14. Fr. Poulsen, Journ. Rom. Stud. VI 1916
p. 52 seqq. and pls. IX-X. G. Lippold: Antike Skulpt. der Glyptothek Ny
Carlsberg p. 31 and fig. 42. The Carthage head published by Merlin, Mon.
Piot XL 1944 p. 135 seqq.
770. (I. N. 1406). A Roman of the middle of the ith century A.D.
Head. Greek marble.
II. 0.40, H. of face 0.185. The tip of the nose, the right ear and a
small part of the left restored in plaster. The surface for a great
part covered by sinter. The occiput flat and roughly modelled. For
insertion into a statue. Acquired 1895 from the estate of the art
dealer Martinetti at Rome.
It is an elderly man with a lined, powerful face, enormous
eyebrows, deep folds downwards from the wings of the
nose and a protuding lower lip. The eyeballs are large with
small pupils, the beard stippled, the brows roughly fluted,
the thick hair has locks in low relief with curving ends.
Related heads are on the reliefs of the Arch of Constantine,
but the modelling gives, it a still greater likeness to the
colossal head of Constantins II in the Conservatori palace,
and this brings us as far as the middle of the 4th century.
The size of the head might suggest a famous man.
Billedtavler pl. LXV. 1’Orange: Spatant. Portr. p. 53 No. 5, p. 54, p. 130
No. 74 and figs. 142 and 144. R. Delbruck: Spatantike Kaiserportrats p. 142;
cf. pls. 52-54.
771. (I. N. 1475). Portrait of the emperor Valentinian I. Head. M.
H. 0.33, of the face alone 0.22. The head has been split from a
statue and the larger part of the left side of the face is missing. The
central part of the diadem and the left ear broken off. Parts of both
brows, the nose and adjoining parts of the face, the central part of
the mouth and chin, part of the right cheek patched in plaster. Thus
only hair, diadem, forehead and the eye with the enormous pupil are
well preserved. Acquired 1896 from Rome.
The diadem proves that it is an emperor, the mask-like
expression that it originates from the 4th century. The
modelling, hair style and form of diadem as well as the age
536