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


'''Object Archaeology''': From the Farnese Collection.
'''Object Archaeology''': From Rome.  Once part of the Tyszkiewicz Collection.


'''Inscriptions''': None.
'''Inscriptions''': None.


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


'''Dimensions''': Height (chin to crown): 33.5 cm
'''Dimensions''': Height: 65 cm


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

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Apollonius of Tyana Type Homer.jpg

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 Rome. Once part of the Tyszkiewicz Collection.

Inscriptions: None.

Restorations: Nose.

Dimensions: Height: 65 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)
  • Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle 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.