Information
- Title
- Portrait of Socrates (Type B), after a bronze prototype of around 320 B.C.
- Object Number
- y1990-84
- Medium
- Fine-grained white marble, probably Carrara
- Dates
- probably 4th century CE
- Dimensions
- preserved: 28.1 x 20.0 x 17.9 cm (11 1/16 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of P. H. von Blanckenhagen
- Type
- Materials
- Helga von Heintze, "Studien zur griechischen Porträtkunst", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 71 (1964) , p. 71-103, esp. 77-81; pls. 16-17.1-2, 4
- Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, The portraits of the Greeks, (London: Phaidon Press, 1965)., Vol. 1: p. 115; cat. no 25
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 60 (illus.)
- B. S. Ridgway, et al., Greek sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University: Greek originals, Roman copies and variants, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994)., p. 64-67 (illus.); cat. no. 19
- Ingeborg Scheibler, "Rezeptionsphasen des jüngeren Sokratesporträts in der Kaiserzeit", Jahrbuch des deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 119 (2004)., p. 236; cat. no. 26; p. 237; fig. 29a-c.
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