Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate monumental head from York
Authors: Russell, M.
Journal: Britannia
Volume: 49
Pages: 211-224
eISSN: 1753-5352
ISSN: 0068-113X
DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X18000090
Abstract:A damaged and badly weathered stone head, discovered prior to 1823 in York, and interpreted as an early portrait of the emperor Constantine I, is here re-examined and identified as a modified image of an earlier, deified emperor, almost certainly Hadrian. A re-analysis of the image as it survives today further suggests that the recarving, into a likeness of Constantine, occurred after A.D. 312 and not, as widely believed, at the moment of Constantine's proclamation as emperor in York in A.D. 306.
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Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York
Authors: Russell, M.
Journal: BRITANNIA
Volume: 49
Pages: 211-224
eISSN: 1753-5352
ISSN: 0068-113X
DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X18000090
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Facing up to Constantine: Reassessing the Stonegate Monumental Head from York
Authors: Russell, M.
Journal: Britannia
Volume: 49
Pages: 1-14
Publisher: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
ISSN: 0068-113X
DOI: 10.1017/S0068113X18000090
Abstract:A damaged and badly weathered stone head, discovered prior to 1823 in York, and interpreted as an early portrait of the emperor Constantine I, is here re-examined and identified as a modified image of an earlier, deified emperor, almost certainly Hadrian. A re-analysis of the image as it survives today further suggests that the recarving, into a likeness of Constantine, occurred after A.D. 312 and not, as widely believed, at the moment of Constantine’s proclamation as emperor in York in A.D. 306
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