Lot 122
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AN OVER LIFE-SIZE ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF A DIGNITARY
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AN OVER LIFE-SIZE ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF A DIGNITARY

LATE 1ST/EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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AN OVER LIFE-SIZE ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF A DIGNITARY
LATE 1ST/EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Wearing a toga with deeply cut vertical and horizontal bow-shaped folds, the togatus figure standing with weight on left leg, his right leg bent slightly forward at the knee, with deep neck socket, mounted
41½ in. (105.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Bruce McAlpine, London, 1980s.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Cf. E. Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Mainz, 1982, pp. 244-246, no. 168, for a marble statue of a togatus from Rome or Ostia. This almost identical but more complete statue is of "a Roman citizen of patrician descent", holding a scroll in his hand indicating "he is about to make a speech in the court, before the senate or on the occasion of a funeral. The head might just as well have been that of an emperor as that of some official, traditional Roman clothing knew no difference."

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