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Prima Porta - type portrait of the Emperor Caesar Augustus
Prima Porta - type portrait of the Emperor Caesar Augustus

Prima Porta - type portrait of the Emperor Caesar Augustus

Dateafter 1863
Maker Roman or Italian
Object number60.91
Provenance[Mathias Komor, New York]; purchased from Mr. Komor by Seattle Art Museum (Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund), May 19, 1960
Published ReferencesArt Quarterly 23, no. 4 (Winter 1960) 401 L. Bruno, Secondary Art Guide for the State of Washington, Grades 9-12 (1965) 43.
Credit LineMargaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
Dimensions28 1/2 x 12 x 7 1/2 in. (69.8 x 27.7 x 19.1 cm)
MediumAlabaster
Photo: Paul Macapia
Posthumous portrait head of the Emperor Claudius
Roman
54 - 68 A.D.
Object number: 93.6
Photo: Paul Macapia
Head of a Man (Caesar?)
Roman
1st century B.C.
Object number: 54.178
Kneeling Figure
Kneeling Figure
Egyptian
Modern?
Object number: 44.33
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Seated figure
Egyptian
ca. 2000 B.C.
Object number: 44.34
Photo: Paul Macapia
Votive figure
Sumerian
ca. 2900 - 2500 B.C.
Object number: 41.34
Image Not Available for Votive ram
Votive ram
Sumerian
ca. 2500 B.C.
Object number: 41.35
Photo: Paul Macapia
Reclining Female Figure
Pre-Islamic
3rd century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.
Object number: 48.44
Funerary head
Funerary head
Qatabanian (modern Yemen)
3rd-1st century B.C.
Object number: 57.82
Fibula, Cross Bow Type
Fibula, Cross Bow Type
Roman
3rd-4th century
Object number: 64.156
Portrait head of a young woman
Portrait head of a young woman
Roman
1st-2nd century
Object number: 59.98
Mummy portrait head
Mummy portrait head
Egyptian, Roman period
3rd century
Object number: 46.53
Portrait head of a "barbarian" (probably a Dacian)
Portrait head of a "barbarian" (probably a Dacian)
Roman
1st - 2nd century
Object number: 56.59