Relief Fragment with the Head of a Soldier and Fragment of a Lorica Segmentata
Title
Relief Fragment with the Head of a Soldier and Fragment of a Lorica Segmentata
Publisher
Lawrence Technological University
Date Created
May 20, 2019
Creator2
Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)
Work Type
visual works (works)
Date
c. 90 AD
Work Location
Michigan (state)
Ann Arbor (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Flavian
Subject
reliefs (sculptures)
soldiers
Description
View of high relief sculpture of Roman soldier reconstructed from two fragmentary pieces purchased in the early 1900's by Francis Kelsey from the University of Michigan and a German Archaeologist, Paul Hartwig, housed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, MI. "Although scholars knew the sculptural fragments had been found near a building that the emperor Diocletian (AD 284-305) had constructed on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, they did not know to which ancient Roman building the sculptures belonged. On the basis of style and workmanship, the fragments were dated to the Flavian era, two hundred years before Diocletian's reign ... However, the fragments that Kelsey had purchased remained unidentified for almost eighty years. In 1977, Anne Haeckl proposed that the head of Vespasian may have come from the Templum Gentis Flaviae, but it was not until 1978 that it was discovered, by Professor Gerhard Koeppel of the University of North Carolina, that the Hartwig head of a soldier (MNR 310257) and the Kelsey breastplate (KM 2431) joined perfectly. This discovery ultimately led to the current collaboration between the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma. In 1980, Professor Koeppel published all the Hartwig-Kelsey fragments and attributed them to the Templum Gentis Flaviae. The rejoined Hartwig-Kelsey fragments represent the earliest surviving example of sculptural decoration from a Roman imperial funerary complex,"--from Images of Empire online exhibition site for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Material/Medium
Pentelic marble
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
LTU-KM007
- Date Added
- May 20, 2019
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- bas-reliefs, soldiers
- Citation
- “Relief Fragment with the Head of a Soldier and Fragment of a Lorica Segmentata,” LTU Digital Images, accessed April 29, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/18048.