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16 février 2013

Fragmentary bronze portrait of the emperor Caracalla, ca. 212–217 A.D. Mid-Imperial, Severan. Roman Bronze

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Fragmentary bronze portrait of the emperor Caracalla, ca. 212–217 A.D. Mid-Imperial, Severan. Roman Bronze © 2000–2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm). Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989 (1989.281.80)

This portrait depicts Caracalla as a grown man, when he was sole emperor. He succeeded his father, Septimius Severus, who died at York in 211 A.D. during campaigns in northern Britain. Caracalla reigned for only six years before his own death near Carrhae in northern Mesopotamia while campaigning against the Parthians.

The bronze head is said to be from Bubon, a small Roman city in southwestern Anatolia, and was part of a full-length statue set up in the city's Sebasteion, the temple to the imperial cult.

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