Nero

Nero

Name: Nero
Material: Plaster of Paris
Format: Head
Dimensions: 0.31 m high
Museum: By permission of the Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik, Berlin
Museum inventory number: VIII45
Museum of original: derives from the copy in the Palatine Museum (inv. no. 618) with repairs of the damaged parts (e.g., tip of the nose, the helix of the left ear, and the hole in the left side of the head).
More information about the cast on the website of Arachne, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); for more information about the original, follow this link to the same website
Bibliography: Ulrich W. Hiesinger, "The Portraits of Nero," American Journal of Archaeology 79 (1975) 113-124: Maria Antonietta Tomei, Museo Palatino (Electa , Milan, 1997) 80-81.
Photographer/Modeler: Carter Conaway
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