Fragment of a relief: actor with mask
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Fragment of a statue base in relief

Fragment of a sarcophagus: head of Aetas (Summer)

Classification
sculpture / statue; sarcophagus; relief
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
11.7 × 9.8 × 9.8 cm
Date
270–280
Period
2nd–3rd century A.D.
Material
marble analysis; Prokonnesian marble
Iconography
personifications of seasons; Aestas (Summer)
Findspot
Rome (city)
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Inventory
8066
ID
Hyp-3848
References
Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 185–186

The fragment represents Aetas, the personification of the Summer, and once probably decorated a Roman sarcophagus.

Marble analyses conducted by Danielle Decrouez (Geneva, Museum of Natural History) and Karl Ramseyer (University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences) have shown that the relief was made of Prokonnesian (Marmara) marble. Click here for the detailed results.

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New paths of artistic expression in the late Imperial period
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