A Group of Portrait Statues from the Civic Center of Aphrodisias

Bibliographic Data

ID4533872
AuthorsChristopher H Hallett (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume102
Issue1
Pages59-89
Publication date1998-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/506137
OpenAlexW2328358992
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This paper offers the first full publication of a group of four marble portrait statues found in 1972 just to the east of the Bouleuterion at Aphrodisias. The statues are all worked to a uniform scale, though they represent figures of differing ages and heights. The group comprises an adult male figure in armor, another wearing civic costume, a youth wearing only a cloak drawn around his hips, and a young boy swathed in a thick mantle. All four figures were found headless, but careful study of the pieces themselves and the original excavation records permits portrait heads to be associated with three of them. The statues are of high quality and show a similarity in manufacture and style of carving distinctive enough to suggest that they all come from the same period, the early first century A. D., and probably from the workshop of Apollonios Aster, son of Chrysippos, who signed one of the figures. The four statues probably belong to a single dedication, made in honor of one of the leading families of the city, set up somewhere close to the Bouleuterion

Art · Art history · Carving · Center (category theory · Portrait · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History

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