Private portrait from the late-Severa period.

Roman workshop
3rd century AD

Professor Trunk considers that the carving technique of this bust is indicative of a transitional period between that practised in the middle of the Severan period and a simplification of the latter, characteristic of the period known as the "Severan period".third century crisis"which follows the end of the Severan dynasty. Some people have tried to see a resemblance to the portraits of the last emperor of the Severan dynasty, Alexander Severus, but specialists are more inclined to classify it within the group of private portraits of the late Severan period. 

TECHNIQUE

Sculpting

MATERIA

Marble

DIMENSIONS

Height: 40.50 cm

LOCATION

Pilate's House