Portrait Head, Perhaps of Otacilia Severa

250-300 CE (Late Imperial)

10.8 cm 15.9 cm 11.8 cm

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This may be a portrait of Otacilia Severa, wife of Emperor Philip the Arab (reigned 244-249 CE), or of a private citizen influenced by Otacilia's public images. Her tranquil, idealized appearance is typical of mid 3rd-century statuary, and although she is depicted as a mature...

Sculpture

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4283
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894 [mode of acquisition unknown] [marble no. 22]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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