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A Bust of an Antonine Boy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

J. M. C. Toynbee
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In 1944 Father Joseph Jarzebowski, M.I.C., now headmaster of a school for Polish boys at Fawley Court, near Henley, acquired, at an antique-dealer's (Galeria Ordáz) in Mexico City, a draped marble bust of an Antonine boy, which is now displayed in the hall of the Court. It is by Father Jarzebowski's kind permission that I am able to publish the portrait here (pls. 1, 1, 2, 11, 1, 2).

The piece is certainly antique, cleaned, but not reworked, and carved, it seems, in Luna (Carrara) marble. It stands 1 ft. 11 in. high, including the base and pedestal, which appear to be modern. At the back a new portion has been inserted at the bottom of the column that runs up inside the hollow of the bust, so that the sculpture can rest steadily upon the base.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1-2 , November 1959 , pp. 39 - 40
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Copyright © J. M. C. Toynbee 1959. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Photographs by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

2 Ed. H. Stuart Jones, Catalogue of Sculptures in the Museo Capitolino, 1912, p. 200, no. 43, pl. 52; Bernoulli, J. J., Römische Ikonographie II, 2, 1891, p. 232Google Scholar, no. 29, pl. 63 a, b; A. Delbrueck, Antike Porträts, 1912, p. LIV, pls. 48, 40; M. Wegner, Die Herrscherbildnisse in antoninischer Zeit, 1939, p. 264, pls. 48, 49a; Alinari, Roma, no. 11757; Anderson, Roma, no. 1548; German Archaeological Institute in Rome negatives 1260, 1261, 4262, 4263, 4264; negatives 4262–3 are reproduced here.

3 Gnecchi, F., I medaglioni romani, 1912, III, pl. 151, no. 8Google Scholar; Bernoulli, op. cit., II, 2, coin-plate 5, nos. 4, 5, 10; J. M. C. Toynbee, Roman Medallions 1944, pl. 42, no. 6.

4 Gnecchi, op. cit., II, pl. 72, no. 1; H. A. Grueber, Roman Medallions in the British Museum, 1874, pl. 27, no. 1.

5 Strong, E., La scultura romana, II, 1926, p. 394Google Scholar, fig. 240. The photograph reproduced here was supplied by the Museo Civico, Bologna.