Asset Overview
Early Roman marble head of Plato.
Height, 0.355, m
Acquisition: given in 1850 by Dr John Disney
Documentation:
Michaelis, Adolf. 1882. Ancient marbles in Great Britain.
no. 54
Budde, Ludwig. Nicholls, Richard V.. 1967. Catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
no. 53, pl. 15
Green, P.. 1993. Hellenistic History and Culture.
fig. 23
Disney, J.. 1846. Museum Disneianum : being a description of a collection of ancient marbles, in the possession of John Disney.
pl. xvii
Miller, Stephen G.. 2009. The Berkeley Plato: from neglected relic to ancient treasure an archaeological detective story. University of California Press
Figures 28-30
Object Number: GR.23.1850 (Antiquities)
http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/65492