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Claudius

This portrait shows all the characteristics of a group of portraits of the emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE. The distinctive features are a triangular shaped face, downturned eyebrows and short, fringed hair.

The neck has been shaped to fit into a full-length lifesize statue. Where the original of this cast was found is not known

Number: 
608
Location of Original: 

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 1277

Size: 
0.39m
Accession: 

Transferred from the Archaeological Institute of Göttingen University in August 1991

References: 

Verzeichnis der Gipsabgüsse des Archäologischen Instituts der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 243, no.A1303
Poulsen: Katalog over Antike Skulpturen Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek I, 57
Johansen, F: Catalogue of Roman Portraits in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (1994), vol.I, 142, no.59

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