Finding Nero: shining a new light on Romano-British sculpture

Russell, Miles; Manley, Harry

doi:10.11141/ia.32.5

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“…Given the evidence already noted from the 1782 watercolour sketch by Grimm, Rouse's lithograph of 1824 and the description of the head provided by Dally in 1831, this pattern of erosion most probably occurred while the portrait was exposed to the elements in the vicarage and episcopal gardens of Bosham and Chichester. Pollini 1984;Stewart 2003, 261-99;Varner 2000;2004;Russell and Manley 2013a.…”

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Trajan Places: Establishing Identity and Context for the Bosham and Hawkshaw Heads

Russell

Manley

2015

Britannia

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Two damaged, weathered marble portraits, both discovered in the 1780s at opposite ends of Roman Britain, one at Bosham in West Sussex, the other at Hawkshaw in Peeblesshire, are here re-examined and identified as portraits of the emperor Trajan. The Bosham head is interpreted as a post-mortem image of the deified Trajan set up at the margins of Chichester Harbour, probably during the visit to Britain by the emperor Hadrian in the early a.d. 120s. The Hawkshaw portrait of Trajan appears to have been refashioned from a likeness of Domitian and may originally have been part of a monument created to celebrate and commemorate the total conquest of Britain, in the early a.d. 80s, which was decapitated and buried during a period of unrest on the northern frontier.

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