Head of Galerius
Item
- Object Title
- Head of Galerius
- Spatial Coverage
- Site: Felix Romuliana/Gamzigrad
- Modern Country: RS
- Roman Province: Dacia Ripensis
- Identifier
- Pleiades ID# and Canonical URI
- Set #: Porphyry neck of a Tetrarch (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Porphyry hand with golobe (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Miniature porphyry foot 1 (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Miniature pophyry foot 2 (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Miniature porphyry foot 3 (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Porphyry wing fragment 1 (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Porphyry wing fragment 2 (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Porphyry fragment (Palm?) (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX); Miniature arm fragment with drapery (SEEDD Inv. # : XXX)
- GPS/Spatial ID#: Zaječar
- Source
- Current location relative to findspot: "Sector of the baths"; described as embedded as construction material in later wall
- Medium
- figural sculpture
- Material
- porphyry
- Description
- Production Marks: N/A
- Iconography: Ideally this would be a field that (when necessary) allows for lengthy description and discussion; As placeholder text: The depicted figured is often interpretted as emperor Galerius based on the site's association with that ruler and the figure's corpulance (indicated by the prescence of a double chin). While the identification is highly possible (see Bergman's argument in LSA 845 discussion), Tetrarchic iconography was designed first and foremost to suggest the interchangability of the co-emperors, meaning that it is difficult--if not impossible--to convincingly distinguish between the portraits of any two Tetrarchic emperors.
- General Photo: Ideally front, back, side views, and crown details (see folder "Head of a Tetrarch")
- Date
- late 3rd/ early 4th c. CE
- Patron
- presumed imperial
- Subject
- Honorand: imperial
- Scribe
- AHC
- Entered
- 10/28/2017
- Media
Head of Galerius