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.