A Roman Relief

Roman

British Museum

early 1st Century

A relief representing two freedmen of a Publius Licinius, who from their names, Philonicus and Demetrius, seem to have been Greek. Not a tomb relief, but looks like one. Two styles of portraiture; the older man in the old-fashioned realist Republican style, the younger (who may be his son) in the idealised style of the time of Augustus or Tiberious.

• Medium: marble
• Dimensions: 70 x 80 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £500 ( Total: £1,500)
• ArtFunded in: 1954

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