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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Roman
Title:Empress Marcia Otacilia Severa
Date Made:3rd century CE
Type:Sculpture
Materials:marble sculpture
Measurements:Overall: 15 1/2 in x 8 3/16 in x 9 1/2 in; 39.4 cm x 20.8 cm x 24.1 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1941.21
Credit Line:Museum purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
1941-21.jpg

Description:
Provenance:
Robert Laurent [1890-1970 ?]; acquired 5 March 1941 by the Brummer Gallery, New York, acquired 24 November 1941 by Amherst College.

Label Text:
This life-sized head is attributed as a portrait of Marcia Otacilia Severa, wife of Emperor Philip the Arab, who reigned over the Roman Empire from 244 to 249. The original nose and chin were broken off; the losses were filled with plaster in the 1940s on the basis of the empress' portraits on ancient coins and a marble bust from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (23.206).

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