Asset Overview
A second century AD, Parian marble Roman head of Marcus Aurelius.
Dimension(s):
height, 0.312, m
width, 0.19, m, approx
depth, 0.19, m, approx
Acquisition:
Given to the museum in 1850 by Dr John Disney
Documentation:
Michaelis, Adolf. 1882. Ancient marbles in Great Britain.
no. 64
Budde, Ludwig. Nicholls, Richard V.. 1967. Catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
no. 115, pl. 39
Albertson, F.C.. 1988. A Portrait of Marcus Aurelius from Syro Palestine.
Source Title: Damaszener Mitteilungen 3 (1-September-)
9 no. 21
Object Number: GR.33.1850 (Antiquities)
http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/65502