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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