CIRCA 196-204 A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF THE EMPEROR CARACALLA
CIRCA 196-204 A.D.
Depicted as a youth, his hair an abundant mass of thick wavy locks, covering his ears with only the lobes visible, the eyes articulated with gaze to the right, with heavy lids, mounted
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high

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European private collection, acquired in the 1990s.

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Septimius Bassianus, nicknamed Caracalla (because he wore a long Celtic cloak or caracalla) and later known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was born in Lyon in 186 or 188 A.D., the first son to the Emperor Septimius Severus and his second wife Julia Domna. In an effort to establish his own dynasty, Septimus Severus declared the very young Caracalla a Caesar in 196 and Augustus in 198.

There are five different portrait types of the Emperor Caracalla; this portrait of the young Caracalla comes from the years 196/7-204 and corresponds with the portrait on the Silversmith's Arch in Rome, which was inaugurated in the years 203-4 A.D. For close parallels, cf. F. Johansen, Roman Portraits III, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1995, pp. 30-34.