Category:
Sculpture in the round, heads / masks
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period (31 BCE-395 CE)
Material(s):
Rock, marble
This artifact was temporarily displayed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum from 2007 until it was returned to the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria on 16 August 2022.
The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.
References
- Nicola Bonacasa, “Ritratto colossale di Augusto del Museo Greco-Romano di Alessandria”, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Römische Abteilung 79 (1972): 221-234.
- Larissa Bonfante and Helga von Heintze, eds., In Memoriam Otto J. Brendel: Essays in Archaeology and the Humanities (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1976): 146, no. 5.
- Paul Graindor, Bustes et statues-portraits d'Egypte romaine, Université égyptienne. Recueil de travaux publiés par la Faculté des lettres 11 (Cairo: Imprimerie P. Barbey, n.d.): 44-45, no. 3, pls. IIIa, IIIb.
- Fekri Hassan et al., eds., Alexandria Graeco-Roman Museum: A Thematic Guide (Cairo: National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage; The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 31.
- Cornelius C. Vermeule, Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor (London: The Belknap Press, 1968): 382, no. 31.
- Dietrich Wildung and Günter Grimm, eds., Götter und Pharaonen: Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, 29. Mai-16. September 1979 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1979): no. 135.
- Paul Zanker, Studien zu den Augustus-Porträts I: Der Actium-Typus, Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse 3. Folge 85 (Göttingen: Vanderhoeck und Ruprecht, 1978): 29, no. 36.