Roman original or deliberate fake
On an unpublished bronze head in a private collection in Cordoba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13022192 |
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| Authors | David Ojeda (0000-0001-5379-8069, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 169-177 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dissertationes Archaeologicae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2064-4574 • E-ISSN: 2064-4574 |
| Publisher | Eötvös Loránd University (PUBLISHER • HU) |
| DOI | 10.17204/dissarch.suppl4.169 |
| OpenAlex | W4402990677 |
| Language | EN |
A private collection in Cordoba contains a previously unpublished bronze head. It is not a Roman original. Its iconographic incongruences and its intentional fractures suggest a malicious intention in its manufacture. It is possibly a fake that someone intended to introduce in the art market. A second bronze portrait of the same personage belongs to a private collection in Murcia. It has similarly never been made known. It is also a modern sculpture, confirming the non-ancient origin of the bronze in Cordoba. The joint study of the two objects can serve as a methodological example of the procedure to detect modern fakes of bronze portraits with an antique appearance
| Highly cited | No |
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