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Locks, possibly from right side of head of Antoninus Pius. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Locks, Possibly from Right Side of Head of Antoninus Pius
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 80
- Date
- Ca. 140 AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx59.052
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Portrait
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Findspot unknown. Brought by farmer in 1959.
- Description
Inside chiseled in curve and rough-pointed to fit a core or another piece. The plastic mass of locks rises ca. 0.12-0.15 above original skin line. Abundant use of whirling drill pattern, deeply drilled and gouged holes, circular and triangular.
F. Prascsaits of the Ephesus Expedition, a sculptor, agrees that these are locks from the r. side of the head of Antoninus Pius, somewhat higher up than the part preserved.
Fragments Cat. 80, Cat. 81, Cat. 82, Cat. 83, Cat. 84, Cat. 85, Cat. 86 and Cat. 87 (Figs. 198-200) may belong to the colossal statue of Antoninus Pius (Cat. 79 Figs. 196-197) and date to ca. A.D. 140.
- Condition
- Slightly yellowish marble. Broken at the back of fragment; freshly broken at top.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.46; W. 0.25; D. 0.22.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR