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A Roman Marble Head from Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

K. S. Painter
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The British Museum acquired in November 1961 a Roman marble portrait head (pl. XLVI) found at Broadbridge, three miles west of Chichester (fig. 1). It was given to the museum by the late Captain A. W. F. Fuller through the National Art-Collections Fund.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , September 1965 , pp. 178 - 182
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1965

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page 178 note 1 Registered in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities as no. 1961. 11–3. 1. Published in Art in Roman Britain by J. M. C. Toynbee (Phaidon, 1962), pl. 1 and p. 123, catalogue no. 1a, with bibliography. The second edition of this book (1963) corrects previous references to the find-place.

page 178 note 2 Vol. liii (1910), p. 272.

page 179 note 1 Chichester, 1911.

page 179 note 2 Toynbee, op. cit. (1962), p. 124.

page 179 note 3 Now in the correspondence files of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.

page 179 note 4 The letter is summarized in the Greek and Roman Department's letter book for 1910.

page 180 note 1 Sussex Archaeological Collections, liii, 272 and lvii, 217.

page 181 note 1 The letter confirming the sale is now in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities. Heron-Allen reported that the head had come into his possession in Sussex Archaeological Collections, lvii (1915), 217.

page 181 note 2 Reported by MacDermott, Sussex Archaeological Collections, liii, 272, and by Heron-Allen, Sussex Archaeological Collections, lvii, 217.

page 181 note 3 Art in Roman Britain (1962), pp. 123–4.

page 181 note 4 Toynbee, op. cit. For a well-documented series of heads see Claudische Prinzen by Vagn Poulsen (Deutsche Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Band 14, 1960).

page 181 note 5 See the account by Winbolt, S. E. in Victoria County History of Sussex, liii (1935), 50Google Scholar, s.v. ‘Bosham’ etc.; also G. Webster in Archaeological Journal, cxv, 73.

page 181 note 6 B. Cunliffe in Antiquaries Journal, xlii, 15 ff., and xliii, 1 ff.

page 181 note 7 The pottery found on the site of the church and now in the church suggests that they do.

page 181 note 8 See Hay, A., History of Chichester (1804), p. 604Google Scholar; Heron-Allen, E., Selsey Bill, Historic and Pre-historic (London, 1911)Google Scholar who quotes the Chichester Guide by Dally, Richard (1831)Google Scholar; Turner, E. ‘On the Saxon College of Bosham’ in Sussex Archaeological Collections, viii (1856), 195Google Scholar; MacDermott, K. H.Bosham: Its History and Antiquities (1911), p. 7Google Scholar. The head was placed on loan at the British Museum in 1949. The head is larger than life-size and may therefore represent an emperor; but the damage to the features almost certainly preeludes identification.

page 182 note 1 See note 8, p. 181. Vicarage garden: Hay, Turner. Churchyard: MacDermott.

page 182 note 2 I must acknowledge here the help freely and generously given by a number of scholars.