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'''Object description''': Marble head and neck of blind poet Homer. Roman emulation of mid-fifth-century Greek portrait. | '''Object description''': Marble head and neck of blind poet Homer. Roman emulation of mid-fifth-century Greek portrait. | ||
'''Object Archaeology''': ‘Gift of P. Arndt, who acquired it in Rome in | '''Object Archaeology''': ‘Gift of P. Arndt, who acquired it in Rome in 1892’ (Richter 1965: 47). | ||
'''Dimensions''': height 37cm. | '''Dimensions''': height 37cm. | ||
Revision as of 23:00, 6 November 2014
Image: Munich, Glyptothek, room 10: Saal des Alexander, inv. 273.
Object description: Marble head and neck of blind poet Homer. Roman emulation of mid-fifth-century Greek portrait.
Object Archaeology: ‘Gift of P. Arndt, who acquired it in Rome in 1892’ (Richter 1965: 47).
Dimensions: height 37cm.
Inscriptions: None.
Restorations: None.
Examples in major collections (after Richter 1965 with updates):
- Rome, Musei Vaticani, Sala delle Muse, inv. 315
- Rome, Musei Vaticani, Maggazini, inv. 7112
- Rome, Museo Torlonia, inv. 163
- Rome, Museo Barracco, inv. 123
- Munich, Glyptothek, inv. 273
- Moscow, State Historical Museum (half-size).
Bibliography
- Boehringer, R. B. and Boehringer, E. 1939. Homer Bildnisse und Nachweise. Breslau. pp. 19-41.
- Esdaile, K. A. 1912. "An Essay towards the Classification of Homeric Coin Types". The Journal of Hellenic Studies 32: 298-325. pp. 302-03.
- Richter, G. M. A. 1965. The Portraits of the Greeks (vol. 1). London. pp. 47-48.
- Richter, G. M. A. and Smith, R. R. R. 1984. The Portraits of the Greeks. pp. 140-41.
- Schefold, K. and Bayard, A.-C. 1997. Die Bildnisse der Antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker. Basel. pp. 92-93.
- Zanker, P. 1995. The Mask of Socrates : The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (Shapiro, A., trans.). Berkeley. pp. 14-22.
