Cast Gallery catalogue number: H023

Portrait head of a man.

• Plaster cast: Height: 29 cm.
• Copy of a marble portrait head.
• The head:
  • was reused in the 4th century AD.
  • was found in Aphrodisias behind the Theatre.
  • is now in Geyre, Aphrodisias Museum.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

H 023
Julio-Claudian Portrait of a Man Reused in the Fourth Century. Aphrodisias

Marble
Head
29 cm

From Aphrodisias. Found behind the Theater.
Turkey, Geyre, Aphrodisias Museum
Originally Julio-Claudian, Reused in the Fourth Century AD

Bibliography:
J. Inan and E. Rosenbaum, Römische und Fruhbyzantinische Portratplastik aus der Turkei: Neue Funde (Mainz am Rhein 1979) pp.134-135 no.80 pl.72.1-4