Currently not on view
Colossal female head,
late 2nd century CE
Roman
Late Antonine Period, 138–193 CE
2000-50
Information
Title
Colossal female head
Dates
late 2nd century CE
Medium
Large-grained white marble
Dimensions
36.8 x 27.5 x 27.4 cm (14 1/2 x 10 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2000-50
Place Excavated
Turkey, Antioch on the Orontes
Period
Materials
Purchased July 1938 in Seleuceia in Pieria by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- Richard Stillwell, ed., Antioch-on-the-Orontes III: the excavations 1937–1939, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941)., cat. no. 198, pp. 167-168, pl. 41 and 45
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 92
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 2000," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 60 (2001): p. 66-93., p. 90
- Lisa R. Brody and Gail L. Hoffman, eds., Roman in the provinces: art on the periphery of empire, (Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)., p. 342; fig. 180
