Living Poets

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'''Image''': Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, I.N. 609.

'''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==

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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.
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