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Cleopatra VII, marble statue, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Greek Cross, 21  wikidata:Q64351452 reasonator:Q64351452
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Cleopatra VII, marble statue, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Greek Cross, 21
label QS:Lit,"Statua acefala femminile"
label QS:Len,"Cleopatra VII, marble statue, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Greek Cross, 21"
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English: Statue presumable portraying Cleopatra VII. Marble. The statue is a Roman copy of a Greek original of the end of the 5th cent. BCE. The head is plaster cast from ancient head. The statue, which apparently depicts Cleopatra VII, was allegedly found on the Via Cassia near the so-called "Tomba di Nerone." It's identification as Cleopatra VII, by virtue of the facial features, "melon" hairstyle, Hellenistic royal diadem, and similarity to coinage portraits of her reign is outlined in the following sources:
* G. Lippold. Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums. Band III 1, Text. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Leipzig, 1936. P. 169—171, cat. no. 567.
* Curtius, L. "Ikonographische Beitrage zum Portrar der romischen Republik und der Julisch-Claudischen Familie." RM 48 (1933): 182-243. 184 ff. Abb. 3 Taf. 25—27.
* Raia, Ann R.; Sebesta, Judith Lynn (September 2017) The World of State[1], College of New Rochelle, archived from the original on 2018-03-06
Inv. No. 179. Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum.
Photo by Sergey Sosnovskiy (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Date 12 October 2006, 16:09:14
Medium marble Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 179 cm (70.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+179U174728
institution QS:P195,Q182955
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