| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 2771 | |
| Title: | PORTRAIT OF JULIUS CAESAR | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Object Number: | 2771 | |
| Description: | Head of Julius Caesar, turned slightly to rt. Hair short, worked flat on head with uneven chisel strokes; in front originally arranged in comma-shaped locks to lt., widely spaced; later reworked when spaces filled in , hairline lowered slightly with vertical parallel incisions. Broad high forehead, one horizontal crease, 2 vertical. Straight eyebrows, narrow almond-shaped eyes with heavy lids, bulging eyeballs, outlined with shallow incision; nose slightly arched; deep lines around thin mouth; cheeks and temples hollow. Ears simplified. Ends in short tenon, surfaces of which roughly picked. Head reworked, perhaps then added roughly stippled moustache and beard, recutting hair. Slight rasping on neck, flat chisel behind ears. No drill. | |
| Material: | Fine-crystal white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Head and neck complete; chips over rt. temple and eye, around mouth, lt. cheek; end of nose, back of neck. Somewhat weathered, a few rust stains on neck, center of forehead. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.325 H00.25 (head) W00.205 Depth00.215 | |
| Period: | 1 st c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | Tiberian, reworked 3rd c. (DeGrazia) | |
| Area: | Peirene | |
| Context: | Peirene, Brought in before 1930 but not entered into any in | |
| Findspot Description: | BHH Peirene 4 notebook, p. 38. October 11-12 [prob 1933]. BAR April 12, 2006. | |
| Bibliography: | AAA 1970 P109-110, fig. 1; DeGrazia, Diss. P77 N7; cited Ridgeway, Hesperia 1981 P430 n.31, P447 N98 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: De Grazia, Excavations of the American school ... 1980 Publication: Ridgway, Hesperia 50:4, 1981 Monument: Peirene Images (8) Basket: Peirene, Brought in before 1930 but not entered into any in |
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