statue
- Museum number
- 1861,1127.23
- Description
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Marble statue of the emperor Hadrian, in Greek dress, offering a sprig of laurel to Apollo.
- Production date
- 117-125 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 188 centimetres (Height of body)
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Height: 43 centimetres (Height of head and neck)
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Width: 78 centimetres (Width of body)
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Width: 29 centimetres (Width of head and neck)
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Depth: 59 centimetres (Depth of body)
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Depth: 25 centimetres (Depth of head and neck)
- Curator's comments
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Type Stazione Termini
The insert portrait head of Hadrian almost certainly does not belong to the body. There is no other statue of a Roman emperor in Greek civilian dress; the gap between the socket in the statue and the tenon of the head is far too wide to suggest the two pieces ever belonged together.
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Opper 2008
Rosenbaum (1960), no 34 pp. 51-2; Wegner (1956), pp. 9, 36, 57, 66, 71, 100-101; Fiittschen & Zanker (1983), pp. 44-55; Wegner (1984), p. 122; Evers (1994), pp. 125-6; Adams (2003), p. 43-7.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 24 Jul-26 Aug, London, BM, 'Hadrian: Empire and Conflict'
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1861,1127.23
