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A Portrait of Tiberius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

R. P. Hinks
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The bronze head of the Emperor Tiberius, here reproduced (pl. vl) from new photographs, was found in 1759 near Mahon, in the island of Minorca. The exact spot is not recorded; but as the Duc de Crillon damaged the megalithic buildings at Trapuco, two kilometers from Mahon, while erecting a defensive wall round his guns, that may have been the finding-place. The head was acquired by the Marquis de Lannion, the Governor of the island; after his death it was bought by the Comte de Caylus, who gave it to the French king. It is now in the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque Nationale.

The bronze is covered with a black patina, and is well preserved. The eyes are made of sheet-silver. The head is life-size, 38 cms. high.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , 1933 , pp. 34 - 35
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Copyright ©R. P. Hinks 1933. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Procured by Miss M. A. Murray, Assistant Professor of Egyptology at University College, London, by whose desire this note is published.

2 Caylus, , Recueil, vii, p. 230 f.Google Scholar and pl. lxv 1–2; Bernoulli, , Römische lkonographie, ii, 1, p. 152Google Scholar, no. 40.

3 Babelon-Blanchet, Cat. d. bronzes antiques, no. 831, p. 362 f. [bibliography].

4 BMC Rom. Emp., i, p. 133, no. 91 and pl. 24, 3. Fig. 1 is reproduced from a cast, for which I am indebted to Mr. H. Mattingly.

5 Suetonius, Tiberius, ch. 68: incedebat ceruice rigida et obstipa.

6 ibid.: capillo pone occipitium summissiore ut ceruicem etiam obtegeret, quod gentile in illo uidebatur.

7 Cf. AJA, xxv, 1921 p. 248 ff., and pls. viii–ix.

8 loc. cit., cum praegrandibus oculis et qui, quod'. mirum esset, noctu etiam et in tenebris uiderent, sed ad breue et cum primo a somno patuissent; deinde rursum bebescebant.