Roman Marble Portrait of the Emperor Alexander Severus as a Youth

 

 

ca. AD 218

 

Height: 45.8 cm.     (18  in.)

 

ex: private Swiss collection, before 1982

 

Published:  Antiquarium Ltd.; Ancient Treasures IX (New York, 2011) p.36-37

 

Antiquarium Ltd.; Myth and Majesty (New York, 1992) no.19

 

cf:  Poulsen, Vagn ; Les Portraits Romains. v.2: De Vespasien a la Basse-Antiquite pt.1-2 (Copenhagen, 1974) pp.142-144, nos.140-142

 

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