portrait of Augustus / Marble
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1975.01.0001
- Object Name
- portrait of Augustus
- Lot
- McAlpine, Bruce
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Sculpture and Figurines
- Materials
- Marble
- Weight
- too heavy for lab scale
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Portrait head of Augustus, Prima Porta type. p.H. 0.30 m, W. 0.23 m, D. 0.24 m. Broken at neck; nose missing at bridge. Chips and scrapes all over face and head. Marble (Rocks, Paper, Memory; Larson).
- Subjects
- Augustus
- Verbatim Date
- 27 BC - 14 AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Asia Minor
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Pedestal 27 - Augustus
- Roman Portraiture; Ancient & Modern Revivals
- Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy
- Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures (exhibit)
- Graeco-Roman-Etruscan Gallery
- Exhibition Curator
- Gazda, Elaine
- Talalay, Lauren
- Ratté, Christopher
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- 2015
- 1998
- Publication Title
- Roman Portraiture: Ancient & Modern Revivals
- Greek and Roman Sculpture in America
- Die Bildnisse des Augustus
- Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin's Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures
- Publication Author
- Gazda, Elaine K.
- Vermeule, C.
- Boschung, D.
- Ratte, Christopher, Artin, Wendy, Larson, Katherine A.
- Publication Year
- 1977
- 1981
- 1993
- 2015
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 1975.01.0001
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1975.01.0001/dscn7471.jpg
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"portrait of Augustus; Marble". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1975.01.0001/dscn7471.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 06, 2023.