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  • Imaging Hadrian in Britain between Coinage and Sculpture: A New Digital Approach to the Study of Roman Imperial Portraiture

  • D. Calomino, F. Bologna, P.F. Wilson, M. Donnelly, M.A. Williams
  • Journal:
    Britannia / Volume 54 / November 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 September 2023, pp. 251-274
    Print publication:
    November 2023
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  • This paper presents a new approach to an old problem, the provincial reception of the image of Roman emperors. Applying 3D computer modelling, we captured the portrait features of Hadrian as represented on coinage minted for the British province, produced a 3D model from a coin and compared it with the bronze head of Hadrian found in London. The aim was to test the possibility, previously posited by other scholars, that the London portrait might have been produced by an artisan who used coin portraits of the emperor as his main – if not only – model. More generally, the paper examines the dependencies of coinage and sculpture on shared models and applies new technology to Roman portrait studies.