拍品 140
140
A LIMESTONE RELIEF PLAQUE OF THE VICTORIOUS EMPEROR AUGUSTUS 27 B.C. -- 14 A.D., of rectangular form modelled in shallow relief, the iconography copying that of the Prima Porta statue showing the emperor standing on a basket(?) with his right arm raised, holding a sceptre in his left hand, wearing a tunic and cuirass, a cloak wrapped around his waist and folded over his left arm, a winged Eros riding on a dolphin at his feet, the cuirass incised with an abbreviated version of the scene on the Prima Porta statue showing the recovery of a Roman standard from a defeated barbarian, with raised border, lower left corner chipped

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A LIMESTONE RELIEF PLAQUE OF THE VICTORIOUS EMPEROR AUGUSTUS 27 B.C. -- 14 A.D., of rectangular form modelled in shallow relief, the iconography copying that of the Prima Porta statue showing the emperor standing on a basket(?) with his right arm raised, holding a sceptre in his left hand, wearing a tunic and cuirass, a cloak wrapped around his waist and folded over his left arm, a winged Eros riding on a dolphin at his feet, the cuirass incised with an abbreviated version of the scene on the Prima Porta statue showing the recovery of a Roman standard from a defeated barbarian, with raised border, lower left corner chipped
10 3/8 x 6 3/8in. (26.4 x 16.2cm.)

拍品專文

Perhaps the ribbed basket represents Egypt as being the bread basket of the Roman empire. This plaque is of interest in showing the position of the right fingers and what was held in the emperor's left hand; for the Prima Porta statue with restored fingers and holding a spear, cf. A. W. Lawrence, Greek and Roman Sculpture, London, 1972, pp. 256-257, pl. 77