Image: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 6140.

Object description: Apollonius of Tyana Type Homer. Roman adaptation as a marble bust portrait.

Object Archaeology: From the Farnese Collection.

Inscriptions: None.

Restorations: “Nose, left cheek, left eye, bottom of left ear, some locks on left side” (Richter 1965: 48)

Dimensions: Height (chin to crown): 33.5 cm

Examples in major collections (after Richter 1965, with some updates):

Athens, Ethniko Archaeologiko Mouseio, inv. 626. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, I.N. 609. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, E00094. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, E00104. Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, Sala dell’ Alcova, no. 77. Munich, Residenz-Museum, Antiquarium. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 6140. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 6157. Rome, Musei Capitolini, Stanza dei Filosofi, no. 64. Rome, Musei Capitolini, Stanza dei Filosofi, no. 65. Siena, Palazzo Chigi Zondadari, no. 384. (not public) Terme, Museo Nazionale delle Terme, inv. no. 124490. Wiltshire, Wilton House (possibly two examples: one disputed)

Bibliography

Boehringer, R. B. and Boehringer, E. 1939. Homer Bildnisse und Nachweise. Breslau. 42-72.

Richter, G. M. A. 1965. The Portraits of the Greeks (vol. 1). London. 48-50.

Richter, G. M. A. and Smith, R. R. R. 1984. The Portraits of the Greeks. 144-47.

Schefold, K. and Bayard, A.-C. 1997. Die Bildnisse der Antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker. Basel. 348-49.