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Emperor Wearing the Corona Civica at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Title
Marble portrait of an emperor wearing the corona civica


Artist
Unknown


Date
ca. AD 250-284


Medium
Marble


Dimensions
Not specified


Collection
Shelby White and Leon Levy


Acquisition
Not specified


Reference
L.2007.8.11



This resolute figure wears the corona civica, a wreath of oak leaves. Originally a modest award to soldiers who had rescued a comrade in battle, an honorary oak wreath was given to the emperor Augustus early in his reign, and it soon became an insignia of power, an imperial prerogative maintained by all his successors, down to the end of the Roman Emperor. This imperial head has been recarved from an earlier portrait, probably that of the Julio-Claudian emperor Caligula. Remnants of the original coiffure can be seen behind the ears. Such reuse of marble statues was quite common in the third century A.D.
(Source, from plaque at museum, 2015)
 

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