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Statue ritratto "ideali" a Gortina
2018
The paper deals with the category of the “statua - rischen Idealporträts”, treating the few specimens until now recognizable within the large corpus of Roman sculptures collected in the city of Gortyn at Crete. A high-quality example of Hadrianic age was found by Prof. Antonino Di Vita, head of the large scale excavations in the site, during the 1988–1990 field season in the area NW of the “Praetorium”, adjoining the Caput aquae of the Roman aqueduct. Beside this spectacular find, two acephalous torsos of the “Diomedes” type are suitable to have been used for portrait statues, most probably for a couple of emperors. These latter are old surface finds in an area (W of the theatre near the Py…
Capitolo 8. L’apparato statuario
2022
The section contains a detailed study of the twelve sculptural pieces that were found in the "Gymnasium" complex. These include, beside two "ideal" sculptures - a semicolossal torso of the goddess Rome, and a fragmentary head of a "Vatergottheit" of small scale-, several portrait statues. Two of them (a fragment of a togatus and a fragmentary togatus wearing a ceremonial "laena") date back to the julio-claudian period, like the abovementioned statue of the goddess Rome, and are not in their originary context. Most probably, the laenatus and the statue of the goddess, coming from an official cultic context, yet unrecognized, of Rome and Augustus(?), were reemployed or discarded in the area o…