Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman

Date
280–90 CE
Medium
marble
Culture
Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

These three pairs of marble portrait busts depict an aristocratic Roman couple. They are unique in representing the same couple three times with only minor variations in costume. Allegedly found together with the Jonah Marbles, they may represent the Christian patrons who commissioned the Jonah cycle.

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