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20-SEP-2013 Dan Polley © 2013

Headless Statue of a Man

Rome, Italy

Headless statue of a man wearing a breasplate. In Thasian marble, with anatomical breastplate aand cloak fixed to the right shoulder with a brooch: visible at waist-height is part of the short pleated garment. On the upper part of the bust is the fixture for the insertion of the head. Probably a portrait statue of an emperor, 2nd century AD. From the Flavian Amphitheater, underground structures, excavated earth 1939.

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